# Announcing Grid Engine 6.0 Beta

Regensburg, Germany -- March 19, 2004

Grid Engine 6.0 Beta is now ready and courtesy binaries are available for download.

Grid Engine 6.0 is an important step forward to simplify Grid Computing at the Enterprise and Cluster Grid level. Important new features of Grid Engine 6.0 are support for flexible to use cluster queues, resource reservation and availability of the job submission and control library DRMAA.

There is no more distinction between the baseline product and the Enterprise Edition. The functionality of the Enterprise Edition is now the default feature set.

The courtesy binaries are available at:

> http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/download-beta.html

Please send your support questions and feedback to the "dev" mailing of the
Grid Engine open source project.

A snapshot of the Grid Engine 6.0 Beta sources will be available by 03/22/2004 as a tar ball at the " File Exchange Tool as file:

> sge-V60_beta1_target_BRANCH-src.tar.gz

The corresponding source code in CVS has the tag

> V60_beta1_target_BRANCH