Jim Bryant wrote:
Ron Chen wrote:
Sun Grid Engine goes opensource. See SGE home page:
http://www.sun.com/gridware
-Ron
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-07/sunflash.20010723.1.html
SUN MICROSYSTEMS MAKES SUN[tm] GRID ENGINE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE TO OPEN SOURCE
COMMUNITY
Sun Works with CollabNet to Continue its Strong Support of Open Computing and
Encourage Adoption of Powerful Grid Computing Model
SAN DIEGO, CA -- O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION -- July 23, 2001 -- Reaffirming its
commitment to the open source movement, Sun
Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) announced today the Sun Grid Engine Project, an
initiative to offer the source code for Sun[tm]
Grid Engine software to users and the developer community. Sun Grid Engine software
is an advanced distributed resource management
(DRM) tool. It has been available as a free download at
www.sun.com/software/gridware since its introduction in September 2000.
A leader in the open source community, Sun will add this project's half million
lines of code to its total of more than 8 million
lines of code already contributed to open source efforts. Sun is coordinating this
worldwide project with CollabNet, a leading
provider of collaborative software development solutions based on open source
concepts, in making the code available for download at
www.gridengine.sunsource.net.
The project is designed to further remove the cost and implementation barriers
associated with deploying DRM software in a compute
farm. Additionally, both open source users and Sun Grid Engine software customers
should benefit from this open source project
through enhanced industry support. For example, service and support providers should
be able to customize the powerful software for
specific customer needs, and software developers should be able to reduce complexity
for end users by creating applications that are
tightly integrated with Sun Grid Engine software. Over time, the open source effort
should facilitate the adoption of open standards
for DRM software, facilitating interoperability with applications and easing
integration.
As cluster computing scales up towards grid computing, tools like Sun Grid Engine
software will become ubiquitous and essential,
said Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of technology information firm O'Reilly
Associates. Computing is moving towards the
development of what you might call an Internet operating system. Sun recognizes that
key components of that operating system
shouldn't be controlled by any one company, and they're putting their money where
their mouth is by releasing it as open source.
Sun will continue to deliver products that support our core philosophy that the
network is the computer, said Robbie Turner, vice
president of Client and Technical Market Products at Sun Microsystems. Sun is
encouraging the grid computing model via free
downloads of Sun Grid Engine software--and now by making its code available to the
open source community--because the productivity
gains of the grid computing model will increasingly serve as a decisive factor in a
business's ultimate success or failure.
CollabNet is providing the Web infrastructure and comprehensive development platform
that enables geographically dispersed groups of
developers to collaborate on Grid Engine projects. Based on CollabNet's SourceCast
environment, this platform includes tools for
revision control, issue tracking, mailing list creation and management, and
Web-based administration. This open source project
follows on the heels of the successful OpenOffice.org initiative--also supported by
CollabNet--which made available the source code
for Sun's StarOffice[tm] software under the same industry-accepted Sun Industry
Standards Source License. Full details of Sun's
involvement with open source projects can be seen at www.sunsource.net.
The Grid Engine Project continues to demonstrate Sun's true leadership within the
open source community, said Brian Behlendorf,
co-founder and CTO of CollabNet. CollabNet is delighted to be working with Sun on
yet more compelling open source software. Sun's
decision to open this previously proprietary software demonstrates its understanding
of the technical community's fundamental need
and interest in scalable DRM technology.
Delivering Network-Wide Compute Power to the Desktop
Sun Grid Engine software was introduced in September 2000 as the first product
resulting from Sun's acquisition of Gridware,
formerly a privately-owned commercial vendor of advanced DRM software tools. Since
then, the software has been downloaded nearly
8,000 times in more than 90 countries. A comprehensive web-based training course for
installing and managing the software is also
available at no cost at www.sun.com/software/gridware. By distributing Sun Grid
Engine software as a free download and with all Sun
systems, Sun is changing the economics of technical
