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 required shared files and the basic configuration.