FWIW we use rocks http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/ on one of our clusters. It has the old/free OS version of SGE as an option which seems stable and perfectly usable even if it's missing the latest updates? Rocks is based on CentOS - most recent release uses 5.4 - is not as active a project as one might hope, but it seems usable in our hands and is fairly easy to install and configure, particularly on a uniform backend. On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Assaf Gordon <gordon@cshl.edu> wrote:

Slightly off-topic, but for a new Galaxy installation - What would you recommend for a free (FOSS) Grid/Cluster management product ?

SGE is not free any more (Oracle Grid Engine is "90-days evaluation, binaries only" free, starting 6.2u6).

Ease of administration is top-priority, more than sophisticated scheduling policies (and of course it has to be well supported by Galaxy).

Any suggestions ?  -gordon

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Assaf Gordon wrote:

Slightly off-topic, but for a new Galaxy installation - What would you recommend for a free (FOSS) Grid/Cluster management product ?

SGE is not free any more (Oracle Grid Engine is "90-days evaluation, binaries only" free, starting 6.2u6).

Ease of administration is top-priority, more than sophisticated scheduling policies (and of course it has to be well supported by Galaxy).

I've only used SGE and TORQUE PBS. Our Main site runs TORQUE/Maui, and there seems to be a memory leak in the pbs_python library somewhere so the process does have to be restarted occasionally. Other than this, Maui and the TORQUE server require little maintenance and work well. --nate

Any suggestions ? -gordon

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On 10/01/11 22:27, Assaf Gordon wrote:

Slightly off-topic, but for a new Galaxy installation - What would you recommend for a free (FOSS) Grid/Cluster management product ?

SGE is not free any more (Oracle Grid Engine is "90-days evaluation, binaries only" free, starting 6.2u6).

Ease of administration is top-priority, more than sophisticated scheduling policies (and of course it has to be well supported by Galaxy).

A quick google reveals this statement from Oracle: "The Open Grid Scheduler project [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridscheduler/] will be continuing on the tradition of the Grid Engine open source project. While the Open Grid Scheduler project will remain independent of the Oracle Grid Engine product, the project will have the support of the Oracle team, including making available artifacts from the original Grid Engine open source project." The quote was found here: http://markmail.org/message/olsiw5ix63jyicar So, although OGE in no longer open or free there is an Oracle sanctioned open version. In the meantime, why not just stick with the latest free version of SGE? We're still using it here with very few issues.