Univa Grid Engine (UGE) is a

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, forked from

Sun Grid Engine Oracle Grid Engine, previously known as Sun Grid Engine (SGE), CODINE (Computing in Distributed Networked Environments) or GRD (Global Resource Director), was a grid computing computer cluster software system (otherwise known as a batch-queui ...

(SGE). The software schedules resources in a

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applying user-configurable policies to help improve resource sharing and throughput by maximizing resource utilization. The product can be deployed to run on-premises, using IaaS

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or in a hybrid cloud environment.

History

The roots of Grid Engine as a commercial product date back to 1993 (under the names CODINE and later, in a variation of the product, GRD). A more comprehensive genealogy of the product is described in

. Grid Engine was first distributed by Genias Software and from 1999, after a company merger, by Gridware, Inc. In 2000,

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...

acquired Gridware. Sun renamed CODINE/GRD as Sun Grid Engine later that year, and released it as

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in 2001. In 2010,

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. The company sells da ...

acquired Sun and subsequently renamed SGE to

Oracle Grid Engine Oracle Grid Engine, previously known as Sun Grid Engine (SGE), CODINE (Computing in Distributed Networked Environments) or GRD (Global Resource Director), was a grid computing computer cluster software system (otherwise known as a batch-queuing ...

. Oracle Grid Engine (6.2u6) moved to a closed-source model providing binaries with the distribution but no source code. As a result, the project's open-source repository no longer reflected changes made by Oracle and users were prevented from contributing code changes. In response to this, the Grid Engine community started the Open Grid Scheduler and the Son of Grid Engine projects to continue to develop and maintain a free implementation of Grid Engine. The University of Michigan has been maintaining the Son of Grid Engine code publicly since 2019. On January 18, 2011,

Univa Univa was a software company that developed workload management and cloud management products for compute-intensive applications in the data center and across public, private, and hybrid clouds, before being acquired by Altair Engineering in Septe ...

announced that it had hired the principal engineers from the Sun Grid Engine team. Univa Grid Engine development is led by CTO Fritz Ferstl, who founded the Grid Engine project and ran the business within Sun/Oracle for the past 10 years. On October 22, 2013,

announced that it had acquired Oracle Grid Engine assets and intellectual property, making it the sole commercial provider of Grid Engine software. Between 2011 and 2013 Univa added new capabilities to Univa Grid Engine including Univa Unisight, and Univa License Orchestrator. Univa Unisight provided new reporting and analytics capabilities related to Univa Grid Engine workloads and infrastructure. Univa License Orchestrator extended Univa Grid Engine scheduling policies to support allocation and optimization of commercial software licenses, an important capability in

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(EDA) and other industries. On June 24, 2018,

announced massive scalability operating a single cluster with over 1 million cores on

Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Amazon that provides Software as a service, on-demand cloud computing computing platform, platforms and Application programming interface, APIs to individuals, companies, and gover ...

(AWS). In September 2020,

Altair Engineering Altair Engineering Inc. is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Troy, Michigan. It provides software and cloud solutions for simulation, IoT, high performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and artificial ...

, a global technology company providing solutions in data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC) acquired Univa.

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* {{Official website, http://www.univa.com/products/
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