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On 09/14/2011 01:24 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> 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? > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
