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 master server.