Grid Engine 5.2 software for the Linux available

Distributed resource management (DRM) software such as the Sun Grid Engine product is designed to harness idle compute resources, match them to individual job requirements and deliver network-wide compute power to the desktop. Through this horizontal scaling, Sun Grid Engine software manages an organization's compute resources, allowing engineers to move beyond the desktop and leverage all the resources available on the net, thus reducing cycle times, speeding time to market and fundamentally changing the economics of technical computing.

Sun foresees technical compute farms " - the architecture created using Sun Grid Engine software - as the platform of choice for high-performance computing. Sun Grid Engine software is designed to provide the massive scalability and agility needed to help companies keep pace with and capitalize on the Net Effect -- the macro-economic trend that is driving the exponential growth and increasing complexity the industry is experiencing as data, users, devices, services and availability requirements continue to multiply.

DRM software helps solve the problem of how to apply maximum resources to a single compute-intensive problem, and achieving massive scalability within the technical marketplace. An optimized technical compute farm using Sun Grid Engine software can push the utilization of an organization's computing resources from a typical 20 percent to as high as 90 percent.

Following through on its commitment to make Sun Grid Engine software a ubiquitous industry model, Sun Microsystems, plans to distribute the source code of its software under an industry-accepted open source license, through an alliance with CollabNet. This joint effort, expected to roll out during the next six months, should facilitate increased adoption of the distributed technical compute farm model.