Univa Grid Engine

Univa Grid Engine is a batch-queuing system, forked from Sun Grid Engine (SGE). The software schedules resources in a data center and applies policy management tools. The product can be deployed to run on-premise, using cloud computing or in a hybrid cloud environment.

The roots of Grid Engine as a commercial product date back to 1993 (under the names CODINE and later, in a variation of the product, GRD). A more comprehensive genealogy of the product is described in Sun Grid Engine. Grid Engine was first distributed by Genias Software and from 1999, after a company merger, by Gridware In. In 2000, Sun Microsystems acquired Gridware, Inc. Sun renamed CODINE/GRD as Sun Grid Engine later that year, and released it as open source in 2001.

In 2010, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun and thus renamed SGE to Oracle Grid Engine. The Oracle Grid Engine 6.2u6 source code was not included with the binaries, and changes were not put back to the project's source repository. In response to this, the Grid Engine community started the Open Grid Scheduler and the Son of Grid Engine projects to continue to develop and maintain a free implementation of Grid Engine.

On January 18, 2011, Univa announced that it had hired the principal engineers from the Sun Grid Engine team. Univa Grid Engine development is led by CTO Fritz Ferstl, who founded the Grid Engine project and ran the business within Sun/Oracle for the past 10 years.

On October 22, 2013 Univa announced that it had acquired Oracle Grid Engine assets and intellectual property making it the sole commercial provider of Grid Engine software.

Univa Grid Engine 8.0 was the first version, released on April 12, 2011. It was forked from SGE 6.2u5, the last open source release. It adds improved third party application integration, license and policy management, enhanced support for software and hardware platforms, and cloud management tools.