The workload resources are managed by the
Sun Grid Engine resource manager.
The Grid Engine (Sun Grid Engine 5.3) runs on the Sun Fire V880 system (Sun UltraSPARCIII 750 MHz CPU x 4, 8 gigabytes of memory, Solaris8), and there are sixteen Dell OptiPlex SX270 systems (Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz CPU, 2 gigabytes of memory, RedHat 8.0) to cope with the skin-grading task.
Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition 5.3, Administration and User's Guide.
"We've seen the rapid adoption of Sun Grid Engine software and we're convinced it leverages the inherent strengths of SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional to deliver a remarkable level of performance and flexibility in distributed resource environments."
Sun Grid Engine is also available as a free download at http://www.sun.com/grid.
This strategy centres on Sun's Technical Compute Portal product, which comprises the iPlanet Portal server, the
Sun Grid Engine software, a distributed resource management tool for grid computing, and Sun ONE.
In the past year, Sun also announced its new distributed resource management tool,
Sun Grid Engine software.
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) further extends its resources to technical computing customers with the announcement of Sun Grid Engine 5.2 software for the Linux platform.
Building on the success of Sun Grid Engine software for the Solaris Operating Environment -- which has been downloaded by over 1000 organizations in 70 countries since its launch last year -- Sun's Grid Engine software now addresses the majority of the UNIX marketplace.
Sun Microsystems Inc has launched
Sun Grid Engine v5.2 for the Linux platform, its new distributed resource management (DRM) software.