Purdue Information Technology Division Employs Grid Computing To Expand Computer Resources.Business Editors/Education Writers/High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2003 United Devices United Devices, Inc. is a privately held, commercial distributed computing company that focuses on the use of grid computing to manage HPC infrastructures and enterprise cluster management. , the market leader in secure grid solutions, today announced that it is in the process of linking 2,300 computers at Purdue University Purdue University (pərdy  `, -d`), main campus at West Lafayette, Ind. to create a computational grid to perform research that previously was performed on supercomputers. "Our instructional labs close at 1:00 a.m. and reopen at 7:00 a.m. During those six hours, 2,300 machines sat idle," said David Moffett David Moffett is an executive businessman who was notably the Group Chief Executive of the Welsh Rugby Union from 2002 until 2005. He has three children; Kirsten, Graham and Edwina plus three grandchildren. , associate vice president of research computing services Research Computing Services (separated in August 2007 from the former Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester), provides the focus for the University of Manchester's activities in supercomputing or high-performance computing, grid computing or e-science and for Information Technology at Purdue University. "The compute cycles existed, but no one was using them in the dark of night. With United Devices, we were able to create a grid to use those cycles, maintain throughput, and clear our supercomputers for tasks that they're much more qualified to perform." The United Devices Grid MP Grid MP is a commercial distributed computing software package developed and sold by United Devices, a privately held company based primarily in Austin, Texas. It was formerly known as the MetaProcessor prior to the release of version 4. (TM) platform allows the University to triple the power of its core resources without having to invest in additional hardware. ITaP (Information Technology at Purdue) is using the massive computational power to perform 8,000 to 10,000 genomics and proteomics sequencing runs a day, a volume previously unobtainable without relying on their supercomputing resources. "Purdue is ahead of the curve in taking steps to use 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 to supplement its resources. In fact, this move triples their available power and frees up existing resources for other uses," said United Devices' CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Ed Hubbard. "This is a clear win for United Device in a very competitive university market where free-ware solutions just aren't able to scale up in real production environments." Grid MP(TM) Enterprise from United Devices is the leading grid solution for on-site institutional deployments. By collectively harnessing the latent power of existing clusters, servers, desktops, and workstations, organizations maximize the value of resources they already own while gaining compute power to accelerate and refine their research and analysis. The software aggregates heterogeneous resources into a virtual processing A parallel processing technique that simulates a processor for applications that require a processor for each data element. It creates processors for data elements above and beyond the number of processors available. network capable of increasing processing power (and decreasing processing time) exponentially. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. representatives at ITaP, there are several possibilities in further utilizing the grid, including sharing CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. cycles with local industry partners in the genomics industry as well as borrowing compute cycles from University affiliates who aren't using them during the evening. "We're trying to utilize all of the resources available," said Moffett. "In this case, the CPU cycles were available, but we had yet to effectively use them." About United Devices United Devices is the market leader in secure grid solutions. The company's Grid MP platform is used to aggregate compute resources on a network to create an enterprise grid capable of running a wide range of high-performance computing applications in life sciences, geosciences, manufacturing, financial services, chemical engineering and other industries. The company's solutions are available in both enterprise and on-demand deployments. United Devices also operates the world's largest Grid for grand-scale research that consists of more than 2 million devices in over 220 countries. For more information on secure grid solutions, visit the United Devices Web site www.ud.com. To volunteer your idle compute power, visit www.grid.org. Grid MP and Grid MP Enterprise are trademarks of United Devices |
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