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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi Michael:<BR>
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You can get official support from Sun if you purchase Sun N1 Grid Engine. "Sun Grid Engine" is the open source version. As far as I know they are working off the same tree, and even some previously proprietary things like Windows execution hosts, accounting are now freely downloadable (not open source though).<BR>
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The users@gridengine.sunsource.net mailing is extremely high traffic, so you usually get pretty good support for questions.<BR>
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In terms of upgrade - I suppose they have some upgrade scripts, but 5.x is fundamentally different from 6...<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
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Bernard<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: bioclusters-bounces+bli=bcgsc.ca@bioinformatics.org on behalf of Michael James<BR>
Sent: Wed 16/08/2006 00:00<BR>
To: bioclusters@bioinformatics.org<BR>
Subject: [Bioclusters] Which Sun Grid Engine?<BR>
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The sun website offers "Sun Grid Engine 6" AND N1 gridengine.<BR>
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Which should I use?<BR>
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If there's still a difference, I'm looking for<BR>
the one with the best open source type support<BR>
definitely no proprietary knobs and dangles wanted.<BR>
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Also any tips on how to to upgrade<BR>
Sun Grid Engine 5.3p6 to version 6?<BR>
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TIA,<BR>
michaelj<BR>
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PS: RTFM is a fine answer as long as you give a link to the FM.<BR>
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--<BR>
Michael James michael.james@csiro.au<BR>
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CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166<BR>
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No matter how much you pay for software,<BR>
you always get less than you hoped.<BR>
Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.<BR>
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