Grid Engine 5.3beta2 is now ready.

Regensburg, Germany -- February 15, 2002


The developers of the Grid Engine project finished their work for the Grid Engine 5.3beta2 milestone. This release has a couple of interesting enhancements compared to the beta1 milestone release. We would like to thank all users who provided their valuable feedback and who helped to improve this release.

It is planned that no new features will be added for the final release of Grid Engine 5.3. It's the intent that no spool file formats will be changed for the final version.

The following enhancements have been added to Grid Engine 5.3beta2:

  • The Array Job feature has been modified to be extremely memory efficient.
  • http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/howto/upgrade-2-53.txt


    A couple of bugs and issues have been fixed in this release, among them are:


    The supported courtesy binaries provided by Sun Microsystems do not include anymore binaries for IBM AIX 4.2 and Digital Unix 4.0. Courtesy binary support for Linux/x86 for kernel 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x already has been removed with Grid Engine 5.3beta1. However, the Sun Microsystems Grid Engine engineering team will continue to support through their development efforts these binary architectures for the life cycle of Grid Engine 5.3.

    The included documentation has not yet been brought up-to-speed. The man pages are still the most accurate piece but still contain known deficiencies. You should also refer to the HOWTOs at

    http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/howto/howto.html
    and the application notes at
    http://supportforum.sun.com/gridengine/appnotes.html
    for further viable information.

    Please help us improve the quality of Grid Engine and use the beta version as early as possible in your Grid Engine cluster.

    The final SGE 5.3 release is tentatively planned for March/April 2002.