Grid Engine

Administrator Guide

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Navigating and Understanding the Univa Grid Engine System

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This section describes how to browse through the Univa Grid Engine installation, how to locate important files and how to get an overview on the status of the Univa Grid Engine system. It also provides the necessary information to get an understanding about the key configuration settings in a Univa Grid Engine installation.

Common Tasks

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This section covers common basic tasks executed by Univa Grid Engine administrators on a daily basis, such as controlling user access, setting up hosts and queues, and configuring the complexes, the cluster, and scheduler.


Special Activities

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This part of the documentation describes how to set up Univa Grid Engine specific scenarios, including the following:

  • High throughput
  • Running large parallel workloads
  • Supporting various job types including interactive, parallel and checkpointing workloads
  • Managing scarce resources (e.g. software licenses)
  • Ensuring that and projects receive equitable shares of the resource pool or that top priority workload takes precedence over less urgent tasks
  • High availability
  • Calendar schedules
  • Separate, co-existing Univa Grid Engine clusters on the same network