Grid Engine

In order to guarantee best utilisation and fair sharing of the computing resources, all long-running or large memory jobs has to be run through management software. This software, called "Son of GridEngine", takes care of distributing the submitted jobs to the best suited computer in the cluster, where it will run. 

In order for GridEngine to be able to do it's task, you have to tell it how long time you think your program will need, and how much RAM it will need. You should ask for enough resources to finish the job, but try to avoid asking for too much, as this might result in longer waiting times for suitable resources to become available. If the program overruns either of them, it will be terminated by the system.

Grid Engine commands

These are the most common tasks when interacting with Grid Engine

Job submission

Job status

Deleting running or queuing jobs

Job history