In this slidecast, Fritz Ferstl from Univa presents: Grid Engine State of the Union. "Univa Grid Engine is the next generation product that open source Grid Engine users have been waiting for. Our customers save time and money through increased uptime, and with our innovative feature and product evolution they can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of running Grid Engine. We have improved the speed of several aspects of the product with new features and functionality designed to improve the speed of dispatching and throughput. The following features drive performance of Grid Engine to a new height. They are only available from Univa." You can watch the presentation recording at: http://insidehpc.com/?p=35843

1. Evolve
Save money
Get more value
Accelerate
Grid Engine “State of the Union”

2. Who
is
Univa?
• Data
Center
Automa4on
Experts
• Based
in
Chicago,
global
reach
• Dras4c
growth
Y/Y
in
2011
&
2012
• #
of
customers,
bookings,
etc
• Unique
Posi4oning
–
Home
of
Grid
Engine
• Sun
Grid
Engine
core
development
team
works
for
Univa
• 4
of
Top
5
Grid
Engine
sites
by
core
counts
• 4
of
Top
5
Commercial
Grid
Engine
sites
• 4
of
Top
7
Research
Grid
Engine
sites
• 2
of
the
Top
Oil
and
Gas
companies
• Add-­‐on
products
and
technologies
• Where
Grid
Engine
evoluIon
happens:
• 26
releases
with
close
to
500
enhancements
and
fixes
in
24
months
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3. Grid Engine - 20 Years of History
• 1992: Initial developments @ Genias in Regensburg
• 1993: First Customer Shipment (as CODINE)
• 1996: Addition of GRD policy module
• Collaboration with Raytheon & Instrumental Inc
• 1999: Merger with Chord Systems into Gridware
• 2000: Acquisition through Sun
• Re-launch as Sun Grid Engine
• 2001: Open Sourcing
• Until 2010: Massive growth in adoption (>10,000 sites)
• 2010: Acquisition through Oracle
• Open Source gets orphaned
• 2011: Key engineering team joins Univa
• Now: 3rd product release of Univa Grid Engine
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4. Situation
• In 2010 Oracle changed the game
• Gone are the days - subsidy from a multi-billion company
• Development in the open
• Features
• Support
• Bug fixes
• Qualified binaries
• Choice remains
• Stay with open source
• Evolve forward
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5. Grid Engine: Paid Development
97% of Sun Grid Engine
Sun Grid Engine Code checkins were contributed
Contributions by Sun. Those contributions
ceased in 2010 with 6.2u5
3% (check-ins since day 1 in 2001)
Sun
The core development team
Salaried
now works for Univa. Future?
Developers
8.1
Lines of Code
Univa Grid Engine
Changed
97% 8.0.1
8.0
6.2U5
Open Source Grid Engine We cannot predict the
Single largest contribution to open source outside of Sun slope of this line. The
past can help predict
by Univa. 20x larger than all combined 2001-2010.
the future.
Jan 2011 May 2011 Oct, 2011 Aug, 2012
The community offered configuration and “how to” support. Time 5
It was not a development oriented community © Univa Corporation 2013. All Rights Reserved.

6. Univa Grid Engine
Optimizes Resources • Univa provides Grid Engine users with
• Active development of Grid
Help organizations play a Engine features
better game of Tetris • Active Technical Support
• Third party integrations
• Add-on products that increase the
value of existing systems
• Univa leads Scalability
• Support large cluster capacity with
customers above 100,000 cores
• Univa offers Training
• Offer user and admin training to
customers
• Univa has partnered with leading HPC
hardware and software companies
“[Univa] Grid Engine certainly allows us to go live with a new
component called Aggregator on Hadoop without a major • Univa leads the industry in Hadoop +
investment. If we didn't have [Univa] Grid Engine, it would be a Grid Engine deployments
major investment to go live on Hadoop because we would have • 5 customers in production with Cloudera and
to build a new cluster and incur all the costs around that.” Univa
- Katrina Montinola, VP Engineering, Archimedes Model
6

7. Accomplishments:
• We lead the HPC industry in delivery and
execution
• Significant investment in support of customer needs
• Feature Evolution - Targeted at saving time and money
• Three production release of Grid Engine in a year
• >25 production patch releases
• Approximately 450 improvements to Grid Engine
• Product Evolution - Targeted at improving TCO of Grid
Engine
• Delivered advanced reporting – UniSight
• Cluster analytics
• About to release License Orchestrator
• Optimizes expensive application licenses
• UniCloud
• Optimizes the availability of local and cloud servers needed to
support application workload
“There is little competition for Univa's Grid Engine business strategy. It knows its target
customer base (which is very well qualified), makes its pitch (by phone), and either
takes an order or walks away.” John Barr, The 451 Group
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8. Customer Traction
Market Leading Workflow Management
Sample Wins – 82% Revenue from Enterprise
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9. What Univa Offers Grid Engine Users
• Univa Grid Engine Customer Program
• Univa Grid Engine is a drop in replacement for Sun and Oracle Grid
Engine users
• Migration is an upgrade
• Technical Support from experienced team
• What you need when you need it
• Security and maintenance patches
• Hot fixes, configuration help, tuning guidance
• Continued Product Development
• New, ground-breaking features and improvements – Examples: Hadoop
Integration, Job Classes
• Support for new hardware (GPU, Phi, ARM) and Operating Systems
• Access to add-on products - Example: UniSight
• Access to improved documentation
• New Products
• UniCloud
• License Orchestrator
• Native Windows implementation
• Indemnification from open source technologies used in Grid Engine
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10. Major
8.1
Features
&
Benefits
• Univa Grid Engine 8.1 released in Aug 2012
• Current: v8.1.3 (Nov ‘12) - Planned: 8.1.4 (April ’13)
Feature
How
Job
Classes
✔
✔
✔
Templates
providing
ease
of
use,
control
and
best
fit
Resource
Maps
✔
✔
OpImal
mapping
of
resources
to
jobs
Core
/
NUMA
✔
✔
✔
Tuned
uIlizaIon
of
CPU
and
memory
architectures
Binding
Database
✔
✔
✔
Increased
upIme
@
top
performance
Spooling
Fair
Urgency
✔
✔
Balanced
uIlizaIon
of
criIcal
resources
MPI
IntegraIons
✔
✔
✔
Tuned,
out-­‐of-­‐the-­‐box
integraIon
with
MPI
versions
Improved
✔
✔
Faster
Ime
to
resoluIon
of
issues
DiagnosIcs
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11. Evolve with Univa
• Lower TCO with our innovative new features
• Improved value is delivered with our new products for
Grid Engine sites
• Global enterprise support when and where you need it
• Peace of mind: Univa Grid Engine is an upgrade
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12. Thank You
For more information check out http://www.univa.com
Or contact me at fferstl@univa.com
Watch out for more insideHPC Slidecasts to follow-on topics like
• Univa enabling Big Data and Big Compute conversion
• Resource management challenges in light of HPC architecture evolution and
Univa‘s solutions
• Univa‘s advanced license management (cross-org, cross-geo)
• Univa Grid Engine feature specifics