Sun Grid Engine 6.2u2 is now available. If you're not excited, you should be. First off, don't let the name fool you. 6.2u2 is not just bug fixes. It's a full feature release, and contains some great features. What features? Glad you asked. First and foremost, job submission verifiers (JSVs). It's a...

The last couple of weeks before the holidays I worked on an interesting project. It involved assembling pretty much everything Sun offers for HPC into a single coherent demo and throwing in Amazon EC2 to boot. This post will explain what I did and how I did it. Let's start at the beginning. One of t...