How To Install gridengine-exec on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridengine-exec on Ubuntu 18.04. gridengine-exec is Distributed resource management - Execution Server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridengine-exec on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is gridengine-exec

gridengine-exec is:

Grid Engine is software that facilitates “distributed resource management” (DRM). Far more than just simple load-balancing tools or batch scheduling mechanisms, DRM software typically provides the following key features across large sets of distributed resources:

  • Policy based allocation of distributed resources (CPU time, software licenses, etc.)
  • Batch queuing & scheduling
  • Support diverse server hardware, OS and architectures
  • Load balancing & remote job execution
  • Detailed job accounting statistics
  • Fine-grained user specifiable resources
  • Suspend/resume/migrate jobs
  • Tools for reporting Job/Host/Cluster status
  • Job Arrays
  • Integration & control of parallel jobs

This package contains the Grid Engine execution server.

There are three methods to install gridengine-exec on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gridengine-exec Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gridengine-exec using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gridengine-exec

Install gridengine-exec Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gridengine-exec using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gridengine-exec

Install gridengine-exec Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install gridengine-exec using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gridengine-exec

How To Uninstall gridengine-exec on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the gridengine-exec package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gridengine-exec

Uninstall gridengine-exec And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gridengine-exec and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gridengine-exec

Remove gridengine-exec Configurations and Data

To remove gridengine-exec configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gridengine-exec

Remove gridengine-exec configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gridengine-exec configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gridengine-exec

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridengine-exec package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.