Advanced Reservation plugin for Grid Engine

Posted by chris Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:54:22 GMT

Yoshio Tanaka posts the following: 

... We are pleased to announce that advance-reservation plugin module
called PluS version 1.0.0 RC 1 is now available for download at the
PluS home page at:
  http://www.g-lambda.net/plus/ .

PluS (Plug-in Advance Reservation Manager for Torque and Grid Engine)
adds an advance-reservation function to Torque and Grid Engine.
For SGE, one of the following operations will be performed based on
the startup option.

(1) SGE queue base version
  - The SGE schedule is not replaced, and the reservation function is
    realized simply by managing the reservation queues.

(2) SGE self scheduling version
  - The original SGE scheduler is replaced by the PluS SGE scheduler
    which realizes the reservation management function and the job
    scheduling function.

...

The package is released under the Apache 2 License. It appears that the system has mainly been developed and tested on the following configuration: Linux 2.6.x, Intel x86, glibc 2.3.3, SGE 6.0u8

The HTML version of the PluS Manual is online here:
http://www.g-lambda.net/plus/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/manual.html.

The http://www.g-lambda.net/plus/ site contains a link to a PDF from a IEEE conference paper covering the system in more technical detail.