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We used the Sun Grid Engine in my old group before it got bought and destroyed by Oracle, and it was janky and ugly as hell -- but it worked, and everyone just needed a day or two to understand how it worked before submitting jobs to it.
Very small, easy to configure specific piece of software for a specific task. I look at new systems like Hadoop or whatever Amazon is doing these days, and I'm completely lost at how to interact with them.
(Do I need to create an account? Is it a local account? Does every job need to be registered in order to run? etc.)