Sun Grid Engine Open Source

Regensburg 23 July 2001 The Sun Grid Engine Project, is a new initiative to offer the source code for Sun Grid Engine software to users and the developer community. Sun Grid Engine software is an advanced distributed resource management (DRM) tool. It has been available as a free download since its introduction in September 2000.

Sun will add this project's half million lines of code to its total of more than 8 million lines of code already contributed to open source efforts. Sun is coordinating this worldwide project with CollabNet, a leading provider of collaborative software development solutions based on open source concepts, in making the code available for download at www.gridengine.sunsource.net.

The project is designed to further remove the cost and implementation barriers associated with deploying DRM software in a compute farm. Additionally, both open source users and Sun Grid Engine software customers should benefit from this open source project through enhanced industry support. For example, service and support providers should be able to customize the powerful software for specific customer needs, and software developers should be able to reduce complexity for end users by creating applications that are tightly integrated with Sun Grid Engine software. Over time, the open source effort should facilitate the adoption of open standards for DRM software, facilitating interoperability with applications and easing integration.

CollabNet is providing the Web infrastructure and comprehensive development platform that enables geographically dispersed groups of developers to collaborate on Grid Engine projects. Based on CollabNet's SourceCast environment, this platform includes tools for revision control, issue tracking, mailing list creation and management, and Web-based administration.

Sun Grid Engine software was introduced in September 2000 as the first product resulting from Sun's acquisition of Gridware. Since then, the software has been downloaded nearly 8,000 times in more than 90 countries.

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