[Bioclusters] Re: query

[Bernard Li]

Hi Josh:

Free != Open Source

Basically as far as I can tell, you can download ARCo and the Windows
port etc. for free, but it won't be included in the Open Source version
of GridEngine, it will be a separate download as part of the Solaris
Enterprise System:

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

(Click on Sun N1 Software)

Also note that the released version of ARCo is for 6.0u4 (I think) and
the Open Source GridEngine just released 6.0u7.

Cheers,

Bernard 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioclusters-bounces+bli=bcgsc.ca at bioinformatics.org 
> [mailto:bioclusters-bounces+bli=bcgsc.ca at bioinformatics.org] 
> On Behalf Of Josh Goodman
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 9:53
> To: bioclusters at bioinformatics.org
> Subject: [Bioclusters] Re: query
> 
> 
> Is the windows port and accounting module really free now?  
> The last email in 
> your thread from Andy Schwierskott at Sun 
> (http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&m
> sgNo=13861) seems 
> to say otherwise.
> 
> Andy wrote:
> 
> "If you look at the full announcement you see that it talks about open
> sourcing all of the software. Looking at Grid Engine many 
> parts are in the
> open source, while others (ARCo, Windows, GEMM) are not. There is no
> decision yet if and when these parts of Grid Engine will be 
> open sourced."
> 
> <snip>
> 
> "PS: if someone asked me what I personally think about open 
> sourcing the
> closed source parts of Grid Engine I'd say it would make a 
> lot of sense."
> 
> Does anyone know what this means exactly?  Does this mean 
> they will include ARCo 
> et al. with the new Gridengine download but not as open 
> source software or does 
> it mean that they will not be provided at all as a download?  
> It isn't clear 
> from any of their pages what exactly you get with the new 
> download and I haven't 
> grabbed all the files yet to see if ARCo is in there.
> 
> Josh
> 
> bioclusters-request at bioinformatics.org wrote:
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:34:20 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Bioclusters] query
> > To: "Clustering,	compute farming & distributed computing in life
> > 	science informatics"	<bioclusters at bioinformatics.org>
> > Message-ID: <20051208223420.60632.qmail at web30512.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> > 
> > Try Grid Engine, free and opensource, works for almost all platforms
> > (including *BSD) you can find...
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_GridEngine
> > 
> > 
> > The mailing list is very popular:
> > http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/maillist.html
> > 
> > 
> > And now the Windows port and the accounting module for the N1
> > enterprise edition are free:
> > 
> http://www.gridengine.info/articles/2005/12/01/sun-n1-grid-eng
> ine-is-now-free
> > 
> > Rayson
> > 
> > 
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