Hi,
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:46:04AM -0400, Satrajit Ghosh wrote:
> now that oracle has announced that oracle grid engine (OGE; formerly SGE) is
> a non-free product, are there plans to use a different parallel execution
> option (such as Torque/PBS) for FSL, or continue to using the last
> opensource version of SGE?
we recently had a discussion among Debian folks on which platform might
be the best to support -- not just for FSL, but batch queuing systems in
general. One promising possibility is Condor
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
that might have particular benefits for people in heterogeneous
environments (i.e. not using a massive compute cluster in the basement).
Condors is not in the hands of a company (but a university), hence is in
less danger of being ruined by Oracle.
If Condor turns out to be a supportable/flexible/appropriate solution
I'd add support for it to the FSL package and post the patch.
I is not going to happen this week, though...
Michael
PS: Let's pray that somebody buys Oracle and saves at least VirtualBox.
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