> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Mark Dixon wrote: > > Me again :) > > Thanks for all the responses: it was all interesting stuff, hopefully > for more than just me (I suspect that I was not alone in wondering > what was going on!)
have just caught up on this whole thread and found it most enjoyable except for the slight acrimony around claims of compatability. However, leaving the acrimony aside, it's the acronyms that get me confused these days. Choosing Sun of Grid Engine for something replacing Sun Grid Engine was, whilst funny, always going to be confusing, though it did save changing the environmental variables names I guess, but what do we actually have now. These five inbreeding cousins, SGE Sun Grid Engine OGE Oracle Grid Engine UGE Univa Grid Engine OGS Open Grid Scheduler SGE Son of Grid Engine all spring to mind. Any more? Is Univa's open version of its Grid Engine known by one: oUGE ? Did Dave Love consider Dave's Queuing Scheduler for his Son of Grid Engine code base? Probably not, DQS having long been taken. Maybe there's even a SOC (Son of CODINE) out there somewhere ? Why not just start from scratch with the New Queuing Scheduler? Really, that too? Oh sod it! What say we just follow the example of the Japanese motor-cyle industry, where they settled on assigning combinations of letters to the various manufacturers of their common vehicle (no pun intended) in advance, so that, if you see ZZ?, you pretty much know that it's a Kawaskai, whilst any combnation brought to you by the the letters "V", "F" and "R" (and the numbers 125, 250, 400, ...) is going to be a Honda, and so on. I guess that would only work within countries though, as witnessed by Suzuki and BMW both being in the Grid Scheduler (GS) arena. It'd be nice to sort this out though, after all, no-one on this list is likely to want to use, say, the letters, P, B and S, or L, S and F, now are they? -- Kevin M. Buckley Room: CO327 School of Engineering and Phone: +64 4 463 5971 Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
