Santa Clara, CA — (press release excerpt) — Marking the industry's first Linux distribution of a key enabling grid technology from a major systems vendor, Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Grid Engine 5.3 software is now being distributed by SuSE Linux in the new release of SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional Edition. With this distribution, SuSE Linux users worldwide now can leverage the benefits of grid computing through implementing cluster grids using Sun's advanced and easy-to-use grid technology.

Sun's Grid Engine distributed resource management (DRM) software is a driving force behind grid implementations in technical, commercial and academic research computing environments worldwide. Sun Grid Engine software has experienced rapid adoption and today powers more than 150,000 CPUs in over 4,000 grids worldwide. Nearly 35% of those CPUs are in Linux environments. By making Grid Engine 5.3 software available with SuSE Linux's 8.0 Professional Edition, SuSE Linux can deliver the power of grid computing to the growing community of Linux users.

Sun is one of the largest providers of intellectual property to the Linux and open source communities with the Grid Engine Project as a key contribution. Sun's vision to enable the adoption of grid computing started in September 2000 with the release of Sun Grid Engine software, which Sun followed with the launch of the Grid Engine Project and the release of approximately 500,000 lines of Grid Engine source code available under an open source license. The Grid Engine Project, an open source initiative managed by Collabnet and created with funding from Sun, collaboratively advances the development and use of grid computing technology across the industry's various platforms, including Solaris, Linux and others.

 
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