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I'm not going to waste time copying the release announcement into a blog post. The full announcement can be read here:

http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=94

Lots of significant changes in the product itself. I also love the migration of manuals and docs to the new http://wikis.sun.com/display/GridEngine site.

Please remember that the reason for this beta release is to allow you to test 6.2 before it officially goes out the door in final form. The more people we have working on and stress-testing 6.2 the less chance there will be an inconvenient or unexpected upgrade issue, bug or glitch. The developers have good testbed environments and testsuites but they can't simulate all the different ways and methods that we use (and abuse!) SGE to get work done. Help make the 6.2 release a big success by testing now and providing feedback.

SGE 6.2 is being released in Beta form next week and the developers are asking for people to make some time if possible to fully test out the beta snapshot of the latest major SGE point release.

Andy's full note can be found here (well worth reading in full ...):
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=24426

In my mind, I'm most excited about the following:

• Advance Reservations & array job inter-dependencies
• The scheduler is now a thread within the qmaster!
• The JVM running within the qmaster
• SGE moving all docs into wiki form!