eHive (EnsEMBL Hive) is a system for running computation pipelines on distributed computing resources - clusters, farms or grids. The name "Hive" comes from the way pipelines are processed by a swarm of autonomous agents.
eHive was originally conceived and used within EnsEMBL Compara group for running Comparative Genomics pipelines, but since then it has been separated into a separate software tool and is used in many projects both in Genome Campus, Cambridge and outside. There is eHive users' mailing list for questions, suggestions, discussions and announcements.