“Building on the success of Sun[tm] Grid Engine software for the
Solaris[tm] Operating Environment — which has been downloaded by
over 1000 organizations in 70 countries since its launch in
September 2000, Sun Grid Engine software for the Linux platform is
now available. Both the Solaris and Linux versions of Sun Grid
Engine software use the same source code base. Sun Grid Engine
software can now be used in Solaris and Linux environments, and
mixed Solaris and Linux environments.”
“Sun Grid Engine software is designed to harness idle compute
resources, match them to individual job requirements and deliver
network-wide compute power to the desktop, thus speeding time to
market and fundamentally changing the economics of technical
computing. Sun foresees “compute farms” — the architecture created
using distributed resource management (DRM) software such as Sun
Grid Engine software as the platform of choice for high-performance
computing. Sun Grid Engine software is designed to provide the
massive scalability and agility needed to help companies keep pace
with and capitalize on the Net Effect — the macro-economic trend
that is driving the exponential growth and increasing complexity
the industry is experiencing as data, users, devices,services and
uptime/availability requirements continue to multiply.”
“Sun Grid Engine software helps solve the problem of how to
apply maximum resources to a single compute-intensive problem, and
achieving massive scalability within the technical
marketplace.”