Base One Releases Tools for Building Commercial Grid Computing Applications with .NET.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004 President Speaks on Unique Data-Centric Architecture at Grid Technology Conference Base One International Corporation, a leading supplier of software for developing grid and cluster computing Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications is a journal for parallel processing, distributed computing systems, and computer communication networks. applications, today announced a major upgrade to their programmer's toolkit. This version extends their successful software for building Windows cluster and grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal applications with Visual C++ to support the other main .NET programming languages: C#, Visual Basic.NET See VB.NET. and ASP.NET. This announcement continues Base One's advances in Microsoft's .NET architecture, while maintaining backwards compatibility backwards compatibility - backward compatibility with the older COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. and MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class technologies. Base One's customer proven and U.S. patented software supports the major databases in the marketplace (from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Oracle, Microsoft, and Sybase) and can run against Windows, Linux/Unix, AS/400, and IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. database servers. The software enables organizations to implement data intensive grid computing applications, and derive benefits that in the past have been realized by customers who have implemented grid for scientific, compute intensive work. Base One's software for building low cost, database and grid computing applications, makes it practical for groups of Windows computers to be applied to large scale commercial, government and scientific data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a problems. Base One provides the only grid architecture in the market that does not use a master/slave approach. Instead, the design leverages the transaction processing, integrity and security capabilities provided by high-end databases systems. The result is grid computing applications that are simpler to design and manage, are fault tolerant, and highly reliable. By using Base One's unique database-oriented approach, customers derive significant benefits, including: -- An order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. decrease in costs and increase in performance As additional processors (desktop or server) are added virtually 100% of their capacity can be made available to run grid applications. -- Return on investment measured in months rather than years Customers have estimated the cost of developing applications using Base One software can be reduced by as much as 75% over other development frameworks, and the people cost to operate and maintain these applications can be reduced by as much as 85%. -- High-level database API and data dictionary make it easy to use databases as temporary storage Database components support automatic local caching for significantly increased performance and concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking of intermediate, calculated and pre-fetched data. -- Web Services based on simple, database access Communication is modeled as adding, changing and retrieving records in local and remote databases, freeing programmers from coding to specific communications protocols. Today's announcement demonstrates Base One's commitment to help customers derive, for the first time, the significant benefits of implementing grid computing for solving large data processing problems," said Steven Asherman, President and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Base One. "Our software has been proven in customer environments for everyday, back office processing and NOT just supercomputing." Asherman added, "By extending our development tools to include a wide array of Microsoft .NET programming languages, with lots of samples, our intent is to continue to enable our customers to leverage their in-house development skills." Asherman will be participating at the Gt'04 Grid Computing Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 3:15 PM, he will be speaking on "Understanding Grid Deployment Options - Types of Grids and Tradeoffs". About Base One International Since its inception in 1993, Base One International Corporation has been providing programming tools and middleware to implement corporate database and grid computing solutions. With its "shrink wrap" grid computing software, Base One successfully completed projects for Deutsche Bank (securities custody reporting for over $50 billion in securities), Marsh & McLennan (commercial insurance risk management package sold to more than 400 corporate clients), and Competitive Media Reporting (the leading ad tracking Web site, to report expenditure and occurrence data to ad agencies, advertisers, broadcasters, and publishers). Base One's offerings support rock-solid database applications and solutions for advanced client/server and web environments. The company's object-oriented programming tools make rapid development of complex business software easier, while providing significant performance, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Its database-driven grid computing software has received one U.S. patent, and two other patents are pending. Base One has alliances with IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, plus a government reseller agreement with Gray Hawk Systems. Its corporate headquarters are located at 44 East 12th Street, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10003; email: info@boic.com, www.boic.com. |
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