Reuti <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Am 29.12.2011 um 06:15 schrieb Ciaran Wills:
>
>> I'm pretty new to grid engine, but have been getting along ok setting up a 
>> small rendering farm with the version packaged with Fedora 16.  Here's a 
>> question though:
>> 
>> I have software that is licensed per host - I can run as many instances as I 
>> like on a host and they will consume a single license.  But I can't figure 
>> out how to set this limitation up in grid engine; I assume it can be done 
>> with complexes but can't get my head around how to do it.  Any ideas?
>
> unfortunatelly there is no direct support for this kind of licensing. It was 
> discussed already on the list, to support for a consumable besides YES/NO and 
> JOB the behavior of HOST and HOSTONCE:
>
> http://arc.liv.ac.uk/pipermail/gridengine-users/2010-November.txt (please 
> search for HOSTONCE)

Is that adequately covered by existing issues like
https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE/ticket/622 or does it need another one?

>> Oh, and a side question - I'm confused about the proliferation of
>> versions.  Which grid engine is actually in the Fedora 16
>> distribution?  Is it the last Sun open source one or one of the
>> offshoots?

Search for %changelog in this output for the details:

  rpm2cpio gridengine-6.2u5-5.fc15.src.rpm | cpio --to-stdout -i gridengine.spec

You definitely don't want that version if you run tightly-integrated
parallel jobs, but there's a one-line fix for the bug (posts passim).
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