{just sent the news to the sge-users mailing list so I might as well mention it here...} We have Mac OS X disk image (.dmg file) containing a binary package installer for Grid Engine 5.3p2 now. Essentially it just gives one the standard SGE package with darwin-ready binaries already precompiled. Everything gets unpacked into /common/sge/ -- the user still needs to grab the binaries and/or actually run the SGE config scripts. We also have a patch against the GE 5.3p2 source tree and some build notes online for those that want to build from source. Everything should be available in this download directory: http://bioteam.net/MacOSX/gridengine/ We'd like comments and feedback from anyone who actually downloads and tries this (send email to 'all@bioteam.net') -- making binaries available is a stopgap measure until we can get a good patch ready for submission to the SGE maintainers. Note: The X11 GUI for grid engine called 'qmon' is _not_ part of the binary package installer. It's been a giant pain to compile so we did not make it part of the package. There are build notes on our site and a few threads on the SGE mailing lists for those who want the gory details. --Chris -- Chris Dagdigian, <dag@sonsorol.org> BioTeam Inc. - Independent Bio-IT & Informatics consulting Office: 617-666-6454, Mobile: 617-877-5498, Fax: 425-699-0193 PGP KeyID: 83D4310E Yahoo IM: craffi Web: http://bioteam.net