Introduction to Grid Engine

Introduction to grid computing and the Grid Engine product with Fritz Ferstl and Miha Ahronovitz. Includes demo.

Please leave a comment on the video. Did you learn something? Were you bored? Do you want to see more?

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• sge
• gridengine
• grid
• sun
• n1
• hpc

[KThalman]

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

[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.

[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]

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

[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.

[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**

[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.

[edmazur]

Thanks, good overview of SGE.