They were using older grid technologies. Instead of a VM, you put in a terribly-documented job-script thing that was sorta like a shell script but had extra st

They were using older grid technologies. Instead of a VM, you put in a terribly-documented job-script thing that was sorta like a shell script but had extra stuff you needed in there. I spent weeks trying to make it work, and got nowhere. Took me maybe 3 hours to setup in EC2. It's what happens when management falls so much in love with the idea that they never touch the execution.