Grid Engine

Grid Engine software manages workload placement automatically, maximizes shared resources, supports extreme scale, provides enterprise-grade dependability and accelerates deployment of any container, application or service in any technology environment, on-premise or in the cloud.

Elastigroup supports Grid Engine workloads using a proprietary controller that monitors the Grid Engine queue and launches Low-Priorty VMs once there is a pending Jobs in the queue.

You can integrate Grid Engine with Elastigroup:

1. Create Token

2. Copy Account ID from the console:

   

3. Install the controller on Primary host server using the following commands using the Token and Account ID from the previous steps:

   > source $SGE_ROOT/default/common/settings.sh
   > curl -fsSL https://spotinst-public.s3.amazonaws.com/integrations/hpc/gridengine/controller/scripts/install.sh | \
   SPOTINST_TOKEN=redacted \
   SPOTINST_ACCOUNT=redacted \
   bash