PoD 2.4

I am very glad to announce the release of PoD 2.4.

This version releases many important changes and among others, there is the main event, which is the first stable release of an Oracle Grid Engine (OGE) plug-in for PoD.

OGE is fully supported now in both PoD GUI and PoD CLI. OGE is a great RMS with a lot of sites using it. I think this PoD plug-in will help to convince many potential PoD customers to give our product a try ;)


The OGE plug-in has just joined a list of supported job manager's plug-ins.
PoD is now shipped with gLite, LSF, PBSPro/OpenPBS/Torque, SSH, and OGE plug-ins.

Highlights of this release

• Support of Oracle Grid Engine. PoD is now shipped with the OGE plug-in.
• A new schema of WNs' pre-compiled binaries handling.
• PoD now a bit more smarter and more efficient, when a shared home file system is present on UIs and WNs.
• The startup time of PoD jobs is notably improved.
• Several security issues were fixed.
• This version implements a better logging machinery for PoD workers.
• The Job Manager plug-in system is slightly improved. It now makes it much easier to extend with new plug-ins and to support old ones.
• Updated User's Manual.

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PoD supports OGE/SGE

Some more updates on the upcoming PoD v2.4 ;)

I finally finished the implementation for GUI of the Oracle Grid Engine (OGE) plug-in. Since a month OGE was supported by PoD, but only CLI. Now, starting from PoD v2.3.100.gac84 the OGE is fully supported in both, PoD GUI and PoD CLI.

As you can see, the interface is very simple and easy to use:

Using PoD GUI you can submit PoD jobs to an OGE cluster, check status of jobs, and kill jobs :)

PoD also supports an OGE option file. If you want to provide some additional Grid Engine options to your PoD jobs submitted to OGE cluster, to select some specific resource or something like that, than PoD gives you this possibility via an OGE option file. Just create a file $POD_LOCATION/etc/Job.oge.option and write valid OGE options in it. If the file exists, than PoD will automatically use it while submitting OGE jobs.

See qsub man page of OGE for more information on the option file (search for the "-@" option in the man page).