Univa Grid Engine Steps Up to Intel Xeon Phi with Version 8.1.4

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Today Univa released the latest version of Univa Grid Engine. With cross-platform support, Release 8.1.4. of Univa Grid Engine includes a number of customer-driven enhancements:

  • Improved Load collection tool for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors
  • Extended memory usage metrics for Multi-Threaded applications
  • Scheduler performance enhancements ensuring maximum number of jobs running in the cluster while improving system responsiveness
  • Interactive Univa Grid Engine jobs can now set their memory affinity

Our latest Univa Grid Engine version 8.1.4 has been completely customer driven and is the largest update of the last 10 months,” said Fritz Ferstl, CTO Univa Corporation and father of Grid Engine. “We are leading the industry right now in converged infrastructures supporting Big Data and Big Compute, and our customers rely on Univa Grid Engine to manage mission-critical applications – so we make sure to always stay close to them in order to support their needs.”

Read the Full Story or check out our recent podcast interview with Fritz Ferstl on the Grid Engine State of the Union.

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