Computing grids, or software engines that pool together and manage resources from isolated systems to form a new type of low-cost supercomputer, have finally come of age. BetaNews sat down with some of the world’s leading grid guru’s to discuss the significance of such distributed technologies and separate grid hype from grid reality.
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“BetaNews: Do you consider Sun’s grid engine to be an example of a proprietary solution?
Foster: Yes, the Sun grid engine is a system that can be used to manage a single cluster.I think it can be used to federate clusters that are running Sun grid engine software. It’s a proprietary solution in the sense that it won’t interoperate with other resource managers. ”
All batch systems available are “proprietary” — PBS, L$F, SGE, Condor, etc, can’t work together!
One can, however, use some sort of meta scheduler, but you can’t just let one scheduler control the resources managed by the other batch scheduler.