Grid Engine 5.3 is now ready.

Regensburg, Germany -- April 3, 2002


The developers of the Grid Engine project finished their work for the Grid Engine 5.3 release.

This release is the first final version of the Grid Engine Open Source project. This release is fully compatible with Sun Grid Engine 5.3 and Sun Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition 5.3 (both products will be available from Sun Microsystems). One Alpha release and two Beta releases preceded this
version. Ready-to-Install courtesy binaries for various Unix platforms including documentation and architecture independent files are available for download.

The software can be installed as "Grid Engine" and "Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition".

The documentation in PDF format has been updated and is provided in the documentation package in the courtesy binary download area of the Grid Engine project site. There are now three manuals available:

Grid Engine Administrator and User Guide
Grid Engine, Enterprise Edition Administrator and User Guide
Reference Manual (for both products)
A couple of bugs and issues of Grid Engine 5.3beta2 have been fixed in this release, among them are:


We would like to thank all project members and users who helped with their feedback and contributions  to improve and release Grid Engine 5.3.