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For people like myself who are interested (or say, dependent) on the XML output features of Grid Engine it's been a lonely time. This area of Grid Engine was not really getting much love, attention or bug fixes until recently.

Happy to report that this seems to have changed. If you are at all interested in using SGE data in XML form then you may want to:

• Pay attention to this mailing list thread
• Watch this SGE Wiki page

Kudos to Michael Pospisil from the Sun Microsystems SGE developer team in Prague for soliciting and listening to community input -- looks like the change may be bigger than simple bug fixes and output normalization. There is some talk about making XML output more usable to the end-users instead of the current design where XML output is largely a straight representation of internal SGE Cull lists and data structures.