This article describes how to integrate grid computing with Globus Toolkit software for a site using Sun N1 Grid Engine software (formerly Sun Grid Engine) as a local resource manager.
Global Grid Connectivity Using Globus Toolkit With Solaris OE
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… and not here on OSNews.
And probably as an appendix to one of their technical manuals, or as a downloadable PDF whitepaper.
Absolutely no interest for 99.9999% of OSNews readers…
Clusters, Grids, Supercomputers etc; all perfectly popular with many osnews readers, and all in a theme routinely linked and mentioned by osnews.
Dude go to /. where you belong…
GridEngine is the best opensource batch scheduler. Others like OpenPBS are quite borken, and you need to spend a lot of $$ to pay for commercial products (LSF, PBSPro).
With SGE, you don’t need to pay big bucks, and people run SGE on PPC Linux, or even PS2 Linux — something you can’t do without the source!
The first post sums it up quite nicely. I do find grid computing interesting but not enough to read a 100 page manual on it.