# Announcing Grid Engine 6.0 Beta2

Regensburg, Germany -- April 23, 2004

The Beta refresh Grid Engine 6.0Beta2 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.

A list of fixes, changes and limitaions of this Beta2 release is available through the release notes which are available in PDF format on the download site. A Grid Engine 5.3 compatible "classic" spooling method is now supported optionally.

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.

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

The corresponding source code branch in the CVS repository has the name

> V60_beta2_target_BRANCH