This pages contain information about the batch system and its usage. At DESY Zeuthen we use the batch system Altair Grid Engine 8.6.16.

News

2022-02-04
New HTCondor batch system available! HTCondor is the successor of Altair Grid Engine at DESY, Zeuthen which will finally be retired during the next months.
Please inform about HTCondor.

2021-04-27
Batch system software was updated to Altair Grid Engine version 8.6.16

2020-05-14
New Grafana-based status dashboard available

Known SGE Bugs

Currently non known.

More documentation

• The official vendor's user documentation is available on every submission node at /usr/gridengine/doc/UsersGuideGE.pdf.
• Technical seminar presentation: Grid Engine - The Batch System for DESY
• Have also a look at the man pages of grid engine commands.