[Sans] S and SGE goes 90-day trial license S

[Steven Armstrong]

Mosebach Kai wrote on 09/01/10 10:49:
> FYI,
> 
> [another reason not to like oracle]
>
> Whoops.
> 
> This said, the GE community is stepping up to do something about this,
> though my concern is that Oracle could lean on them a little.
> 
> This isn¹t a good thing for SGE users (we are/have been one) who use the
> open source version.
> 
> I need to check a few other products we¹ve been using in a similar view. If
> we need to convert to something else, we will. Torque isn¹t terrible (my bad
> experiences with its predecessor from years ago not withstanding), and there
> are a few others.
> 

Hi Kai

I have a cluster running torque/maui. It works ok so far. But the
documentation is pretty bad/scattered IMHO.

I'm currently playing with SLURM [1] which seems pleasantly simple yet
still powerful. It's GPL and the documentation is awesome so far. I
think I'll byte.

[1]https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/

Cheers,
Steven
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