SGE 6.2 beta candidate also out

Posted by chris Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:34:10 GMT

Wow, check out the new feature list in the just released SGE 6.2 beta announcement:

  • GUI based installer helping new users to more easily install the software. It complements the existing CLI based installation routine
  • New support for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows Vista (Enterprise and Ultimate Edition), Windows Server 2003R2 and Windows Server 2008.
  • Client and server side Job Submission Verifier (JSV) allows an administrator to control, enforce and adjust jobs requests, including job rejection. JSV scripts can be written in any scripting language, e.g. Unix shells, Perl or TCL.
  • Consumable resource attributes can now be requested per job. This makes resource requests for parallel jobs much easier to define, especially when using slot ranges.
  • On Linux, the use of the 'jemalloc' malloc library improves performance and reduces memory requirements
  • The use of the poll(2) system call instead of select(2) on Linux systems improves scalability of qmaster in extremely huge clusters

Note that this beta release is not for production use and is aimed at an experienced SGE audience. Please test it out and give the developers your feedback!

The announcement has all the details...