On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Alan McKay <[email protected]> wrote: > I am told that our use of our current Grid Engine is pretty basic > (whatever that means).
SGE 6.2u5 is not "very basic" - I would say 90% of the code in any later versions (and Grid Engine forks, whether they be commercial & proprietary, or open & free) comes directly from that version of SGE. In terms of functionality, did you find any new features you need in later versions of Grid Engine (or its forks)? I've worked with sites that were (and I think they still are) using very old versions of SGE - like SGE 6.0 & 6.1 in production environments. > What sort of questions do I need to ask about our current installation > in order to know how smooth the upgrade would be to Son of Grid > Engine? May be Dave should answer this one... We hope to have OGS & SoGE working closer together and share bug fixes and features, so I think upgrading to OGS or SoGE will be very similar in terms of planning & work. And Dave is offering rpms, which is something a lot of people have asked for in the past but we (OGS) still have to find time to work on. We are not offering rpms at this point as we have to setup build bots to automate the test runs & compatibility tests on EC2 (we don't want to manage many VM images for many Linux distributions). And when we ship binaries & RPMs, we need to take into account binary compatibility, which is still a big issue on Linux. Rayson > > thanks, > -Alan > > -- > “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” > - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
