On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz
Now that new versions of SGE will no longer be free thanks to Oracle's purchase, have you considered adding support for a queueing system that is free and open-source, such as Torque?
I didn't realize that Oracle was going to start charging for SGE - not too surprising though. As far as AutoBuild on the command line is concerned, you can use any queuing system you want, it's just more work to set up (and not really supported). For the GUI, I'm happy to support other platforms but this would require actually setting them up and testing them, and we're stretched pretty thin here already. If you have something set up already and are willing to give me an account, that would be sufficient motivation for me to spend some time on it. I think one of the pharma companies managed to get it working on a commercial product called LSF, but they aren't going to give me access to their computers, obviously. I have an account on systems running Condor, which is free (and probably Free), but their current setup is broken in such a way that makes it difficult to support. I may be able to talk the sysadmins into fixing this; stay tuned. I'm not sure what other systems are in widespread use, but I'm more inclined to spend time on those that are free (at least to academics). When I asked about this a year or so ago, everyone who responded asked for SGE (plus one for Apple's Xgrid, which is quite a bit more work). -Nat