Introduction to Grid Engine

[bigphatkdawg]

Platform's Load Sharing Facility (LSF) handles various OSes natively without special Unix virtual machine type interfaces needed on windows boxes and stuff. This is a response to one of those comments that complained about Grid Engine's nonsupport for windows.

[ms209495]

The animation of the system is very helpful to understand what is Grid Engine.

I created similar system - Oropo (oropo.org).

It may be also useful.

[kumarudaya]

Nice video. - UdayS.

[Kevitivity]

We use Sun grid engine at lot at JPL (NASA) and it's a really handy way to put a lot of computers to use for a project. We use it with Dell hardware and CentOS Linux.

[cryspypotato]

So basically GRID computing allows the servers(GRIDS) resourses to be more flexible giving power to where it is needed-am i right?

[slr150]

SGE is windows hostile, I found out the hardway trying to install an execution host on a windows XP pro host. The SGE doc states that XP pro is a supported platform however one of the dependency software required (Microsoft Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications) is not compatible with XP. The documentation on the sun wikis are not accurate and SGE is really a pain in the a**

[KThalman]

The video, especially the animation, was quite blurry on my screen. I would be nice to update it with a higher resolution recording.

[edmazur]

Thanks, good overview of SGE.

[4shells4]

If any of all mod or download stuff for the Sims/Sims2/Sims 3 computer game, image how the grid will change simming forever....

[iCloche]

Have watched all the way through, and am sorry to say that I am no closer to understanding what this technology actually is. The concept seems to be the same as server virtualization and the establishment of resource pools for compute, storage and network, but none of this is related back to or differentiated to server virtualization. Cannot see on the face of this video, how N1 differs from ESX, or if they are complementary or competing technologies. Thanks

[weqaar]

They may seem conceptually similar but technically two different technologies. Grid computing works similar to power grids, they are geographically/physically distributed whereas Virtualization consolidates resources of a single server/system. Virtualized servers stay within, to put it in simple terms, a single local network or say esx clusters with deep layers of dependencies on underlying virtualization core such as ESX whereas in a grid environment - a variety of OS'es and systems may exists.

[xxjonkushxx]

Neat.

[xxjonkushxx]

This is neat,

[Freedomvoicenews]

Grid Computing is a Bad Idea, and if you ask me people will have less rights in a Grid Environment.

[squishydemon]

looking forward to getting involved more with grid systems when i start uni if i get accepted, till then & beyond, world community grid will be churning away on my pc's :) well done

[drewh0208]

I have a few computers that I'm not really using, but I'd like to use grid computing over my home network to utilize their available CPU time to help out the computer that I mainly use. Is there some sort of network application that I could install on all of my machines to distribute this workload, or would I have to make the program myself?

[John5323]

If you run linux on all of the machines you can remote shell into them and run applications remotely while the gui is still on your desktop. With windows you can use vnc to see and interact with the other desktop.

[nanofkee]

Does VNC allow resource sharing to make my slow computers work as one fast one?

[ms209495]

@drewh0208 You can look at Oropo (oropo.org) project.

[qadeem12]

nice

[defza]

Hi, I wrote a long review for this video, but can't post it here (500 character limitation).

I posted it here instead for you to read:

defza . com / notes / dev / review-grid-engine-computing-v­ideo-by-sun-java

Thanks,

David