Son of Grid Engine For Linux

Son of Grid Engine (or SGE for short) is an open source, versatile and highly-scalable distributed resource manager software. It can be used to schedule a batch or interactive jobs on desktop farms or clusters.

There are several ways to install the Son of Grid Engine project on your GNU/Linux operating system, but the most easy method is to download one of the packages distributed for free on Softpedia.

The latest version of Son of Grid Engine can always be found on Softpedia, available for download as a native installer for Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint, as well as a source package.

If you don’t have a distribution of GNU/Linux that uses the DEB package management system, you can install Son of Grid Engine using the source package. Save the archive on your Home directory, unpack it, open the extracted folder, access the ‘source’ folder, and read the README.BUILD file.

Basically, you will have to build the dependency tool and create dependencies with the ‘aimk’ command, then compile the program with ‘aimk’, build a repository of the distribution with the ‘distinst’ command, and then build a distribution tarball from the repository with ‘mk_dist’.

Son of Grid Engine is written in the Java and C programming languages, it supports GNU/Linux and UNIX-like operating systems. It's distributed for free under the SISSL (SUN Industry Standard Source License) license.

Being written in the Java programming language, Son of Grid Engine is a platform-independent application that supports the GNU/Linux, Solaris, BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly), Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems. The software also works on various other UNIXes, such as Irix, HP-UX, AIX, as well as Tru64