alternatives to SGE

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Published on 2011-06-24T20:17:07Z Indexed on 2011/11/23 1:57 UTC
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Once upon at time there was the free SGE from Sun. tricky to install and configure, but functional and free.

Now we've got:

open source packages on Ubuntu that don't quite work out of the box (details on request).
the actual source behind them, with a build process that depends on the c-shell and other obsolescences, available from two competing locations.
a commercial packaging from Oracle
a commercial package from Univa

What I am really wishing for is something with the basic capabilities of this that is simple to install and maintain. Heck, I'd take a front-end to hadoop that just queues and distributes simple shell-script-defined jobs.

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