Data center optimization tool provider Univa revealed Jan. 19 that the
principal engineers from the Sun/Oracle Grid Engine team, including Grid Engine
founder and original project owner Fritz Ferstl, have left Oracle and are
joining the company.
As a result, Univa will now offer engineering support for current Oracle Grid
Engine deployments and will release a new Univa version of Grid Engine before
the end of the first quarter of 2011.
Oracle Grid Engine software is a distributed resource management (DRM) system
that manages the distribution of users' workloads to the best available compute
resources within the system. While compute resources in a typical data center
have utilization rates that average only 10 percent to 25 percent, the Oracle
Grid Engine can help a company increase utilization to 80, 90 or even 95
percent, Oracle said.
This significant improvement comes from the intelligent distribution of
workload to the most appropriate available resources.
When users submit their work to Oracle Grid Engine as jobs, the software
monitors the current state of all resources in the cluster and is able to
assign these jobs to the best-suited resources. Oracle Grid Engine gives
administrators both the flexibility to accurately model their computing
environments as resources and to translate business rules into policies that
govern the use of those resources, Oracle said.
"Combining the Grid Engine and Univa technology offerings was a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that the new Univa EMEA team and I just couldn't
miss," Ferstl said. "Now we'll be able to interact with and serve
users worldwide investigating and understanding their data center optimization
needs."
Lisle, Ill.-based Univa will concentrate on improving the Grid Engine for
technical computing and HPC use cases in
addition to promoting the continuity of the Grid Engine open-source community,
Univa said.
Like Oracle's, Univa's products are used by Global 2500 companies.
An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment.
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