Installing Grid Engine on Windows systems

Posted by chris Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:50:45 GMT

In the past few months there has been a marked rise in the number of people seeking assistance with getting Grid Engine installed and running on Windows systems (of course, Windows systems are only able to be execution hosts and clients). I’ve long been meaning to experiment with this myself with an eye towards documenting the process. Fortunately though, Beat Rubischon posted an excellent writeup online (covering both 32-bit and 64-bit EMT64T Windows) along with a note to the SGE list that included this great qstat output: 

[root@master ~]# qhost
HOSTNAME           ARCH         NCPU  LOAD  MEMTOT  MEMUSE  SWAPTO  SWAPUS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
global             -               -     -       -       -       -       -
master             lx24-amd64      8  0.93    2.0G  422.0M    2.0G  136.0K
winnode01          win32-EM64T     2  0.10  383.4M  220.2M  929.6M  183.7M
winnode02          win32-x86       2  0.37  255.5M  148.8M  618.1M  140.0M

Beat’s PDF formatted writeup along with a tarball of changes he had to make can be found here:
http://www.0x1b.ch/misc/papers/sge/