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Sun Grid Engine

Sun Grid Engine (SGE), earlier known as CODINE (COmputing in DIstributed Networked Environments) or GRD (Global Resource Director) is an open source batch-queuing system, supported by Sun Microsystems, that manages and schedules the allocation of distributed resources such as processors, memory, disk space, and software licenses.

History/Status

In 2000, Sun acquired Gridware, Inc. a privately owned commercial vendor of advanced computing resource management software with offices in San Jose, Calif., and Regensburg, Germany. Later that year, Sun offered a free version of Gridware for Solaris and Linux, and renamed the product Sun Grid Engine.

In 2001, Sun made the source code available, and adapted the open-source development model. Ports for MacOSX and *BSD were contributed by the non-Sun opensource developers.

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