... and SGE goes 90-day trial license ...
By joe
- 1 minutes read - 158 wordsSGE, aka, Sun Grid Engine, is the latest bit of HPC collateral damage in the Oracle digestion of Sun. This is not to say its going away, Dan Templeton has a nice post on his site indicating that they have a roadmap and a future. Its just that it is no longer open source. You can’t use it for more than 90 days w/o a paid license from Oracle. Whoops. This said, the GE community is stepping up to do something about this, though my concern is that Oracle could lean on them a little. This isn’t a good thing for SGE users (we are/have been one) who use the open source version. I need to check a few other products we’ve been using in a similar view. If we need to convert to something else, we will. Torque isn’t terrible (my bad experiences with its predecessor from years ago not withstanding), and there are a few others.