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Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Subscriptions

Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Subscriptions

Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Subscriptions include both the license entitlement and the support for the duration of the subscription. The subscription is based on sockets per system for one year support. Choose the support level that fits your needs.

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Overview

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

* 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.

Pricing

SubscriptionStandardPremium
1 to 199 Sockets Support$159.00$209.00
200+ Sockets Support $143.00$188.00

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.

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

Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit
Multicluster 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
Advance Reservation 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.
Scalability to 63,000 CPU cores Sun Grid Engine scales up to 63,000 cores CPU in environments with resource intensive applications
Improved Interactive Job Support 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.
New Array Task Dependency 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.
Improved ARCo (Accounting and Reporting Console) Management can have a clear reporting of the usage of all SGE grids throughout the entire organization.
Better operability with Sun Software 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

Product System Specifications

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

[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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