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Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Subscriptions

Sun Grid Engine 6.2, the Distributed Resource Management software with one of the highest number of installations worldwide and one of the largest community of users. The product has evolved and is installed at some of the top High Performance Computing sites in the world. This release reflects improvements designed to reach a new level of scalability, performance and ease of management. You can download it now or purchase the media kit.

In addition to subscriptions based on per socket fees, Sun offers a number of subscription based on the number of people in an organization. To purchase these subscriptions, please contact your local Sun sales representative or authorized reseller.

Standard Support - 200+ Sockets: 12,709JPY
Standard Support - 1 to 199 Sockets: 14,131JPY
Premium Support - 1 to 199 Sockets: 18,575JPY
Premium Support - 200+ Sockets: 16,709JPY

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Quantity

Subscriptions include both the license and the support for the duration of the subscription. Both Standard and Premium subscriptions are offered. Customers can choose either a per socket or per organization size.

The Standard subscription for Sun Grid Engine includes:

  • Software releases
  • On-Demand Software updates
  • Sun Alerts and Notifications
  • Online and Telephone Technical support (12 x 5, 4 hour response)
  • Knowledge Base Access

The Premium subscription for Sun Grid Engine includes:

  • Software releases
  • On-Demand Software updates
  • Sun Alerts and Notifications
  • Online and Telephone Technical support (24 x 7, Immediate Assistance)
  • Knowledge Base Access
  • SunVIP Interoperability Support

In addition to subscriptions based on per socket fees, Sun offers a number of subscription based on the number of people in an organization. To purchase these subscriptions, please contact your local Sun sales representative or authorized reseller.

  • Sun Grid Engine Tier 1 Subscription with Standard Support for Organizations up to 999 Employees - Price per Year - Unlimited Sockets $50,000.00
  • Sun Grid Engine Tier 1 Subscription with Premium Support for Organizations up to 999 Employees - Price per Year - Unlimited Sockets $80,000.00
  • Sun Grid Engine Tier 2 Subscription with Standard Support for Organizations from 1000 to 4999 Employees - Price per Year - Unlimited Sockets $95,000.00
  • Sun Grid Engine Tier 2 Subscription with Premium Support for Organizations from 1000 to 4999 Employees - Price per Year - Unlimited Sockets $130,000.00
  • Sun Grid Engine Tier 3 Subscription with Standard Support for Organizations with 5000 and more Employees - Price per Year - Unlimited Sockets $265,000.00
  • Sun Grid Engine Tier 3 Subscription with Premium Support for Organizations with 5000 and more Employees - Price per Year - Unlimited Sockets $350,000.00

* Perpetual Licenses are offered per socket or per organization (maximum 20,000 sockets). A support service contract will need to be purchased separately.

* Get the media kit or download now. Please note the software can be evaluated for 90 days maximum after download or purchase of media kit. A license or a subscription is required in order to continue to use the software more than 90 days.

FEATURE:Multicluster
BENEFIT: Offers optimal service level to users and will have a built-in elasticity, by adding or retracting hosts to each local grid according to Service Level Agreements

FEATURE:Advance Reservation
BENEFIT:Users are able to coordinate grid resource availability with external factors, such as individuals' schedules, equipment availability, or facility availability. Advance Reservation also allows users to reserve resources for specific or out-of-band use, guaranteeing their availability.

FEATURE:Scalability to 63,000 CPU cores
BENEFIT:Sun Grid Engine scales up to 63,000 cores CPU in environments with resource intensive applications

FEATURE:Improved Interactive Job Support
BENEFIT:Allows better accounting and monitoring of the interactive users in the grid. Makes parallel environment integrations (such as with MPI) more robust and more scalable. Faster and more robust connection.

FEATURE:New Array Task Dependency
BENEFIT:Sun Grid Engine 6.2 allows for faster production times in the movie industry and other verticals. The special effects and rendering are done at a speed not possible in Sun Grid Engine 6.1 and other competitive software.

FEATURE:Improved ARCo (Accounting and Reporting Console)
BENEFIT:Management can have a clear reporting of the usage of all SGE grids throughout the entire organization.

FEATURE:Better operability with Sun Software
BENEFIT:Offers a bonus to users if they select the Solaris Operating System and can have an better quality of service to those who opt-in to subscribe to Sun Connector service

  • SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
    • Master host:
      • 80 MB of free memory minimum
      • 100 MB of free disk space minimum
    • Execution host:
      • 20 MB of free memory minimum
      • 50 MB of free disk space minimum
    • Database server:
      • minimum 200 MB to 750 MB of free memory
      • 10 GB of free disk space minimum
    • Sun Web Console:
      • 200 MB of free memory minimum
      • 250 MB of free disk space minimum
  • SUPPORTED PLATFORMS:
    • UltraSPARC(TM) III
    • UltraSPARC IV
    • AMD64
    • x86 Mac
  • SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS:
    • Solaris(TM) 10, 9, and 8 Operating Systems (SPARC Platform Edition)
    • Solaris 10 and 9 Operating Systems (x86 Platform Edition)
    • Solaris 10 Operating System (x64 Platform Edition)
    • Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), x86 platform
    • Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), PPC platform
    • Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), x86 platform
    • HP-UX 11.00 or higher (including HP-UX on IA64)
    • IBM AIX 5.1, 5.3
    • Linux x86, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.2[1]
    • Linux x64, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.2[2]
    • Linux IA64, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.2[1]
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003[3, 4], Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 or later[3, 4], Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 3 or later, Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3 or later/li>

    • [1]: For Linux on the x86 and IA64 platform the openmotif-2.2.2 package or higher is required
    [2]: For Linux on the x64 platform the openmotif-2.2.3 packages or higher is required
    [3]: The following Microsoft operating systems are NOT supported: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows NT Workstation, and Windows NT Server.
    [4]: Requires Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 3.5

  • LICENSING REQUIREMENTS:
    The product is issued either as a subscription agreement or as a perpetual Sun License Agreement, with entitlements according to the number of sockets and/or for unlimited sockets according to the number of employees in the organization.
    For our customers' convenience, a 30-day trial free evaluation is available. After 30 days, the customers must purchase a license and a service contract, or a subscription in order to receive support.
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