History

The roots of Grid Engine as a commercial product date back to 1993 (under the names CODINE and later, in a variation of the product, GRD). A more comprehensive genealogy of the product is described in Sun Grid Engine

Sun Grid Engine

Oracle Grid Engine, previously known as Sun Grid Engine , previously known as CODINE or GRD , is an open source batch-queuing system, developed and supported by Sun Microsystems...

. Grid Engine was first distributed by Genias Software and from 1999, after a company merger, by Gridware In. In 2000, Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

 acquired Gridware, Inc. Sun renamed CODINE/GRD as Sun Grid Engine later that year, and released it as open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 in 2001.

In 2010, Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

 acquired Sun and thus renamed SGE to Oracle Grid Engine. The Oracle Grid Engine 6.2u6 source code was not included with the binaries, and changes were not put back to the project's source repository. In response to this, the Grid Engine community started the Open Grid Scheduler and the Son of Grid Engine projects to continue to develop and maintain a free implementation of Grid Engine.

On January 18, 2011, Univa announced that it had hired the principal engineers from the Sun Grid Engine team. Univa Grid Engine development is led by CTO Fritz Ferstl, who founded the Grid Engine project and ran the business within Sun/Oracle for the past 10 years.

Releases

Univa Grid Engine 8.0 is the first version, released on April 12, 2011. It was forked

Fork (software development)

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from SGE 6.2u5, the last open source release. It adds improved third party application integration, license and policy management, enhanced support for software and hardware platforms, and cloud management tools.