United Devices' Grid MP(TM) Proven on HP Clusters in Testing with Novell Configuration Validation Suite; Now Runs on 64-Bit HP Cluster Platforms Supports Novell SUSE.AUSTIN, Texas -- 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. announced today that its 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) software suite has been certified on Hewlett Packard's Cluster Platform 3000 and Cluster Platform 4000 and Blade Server A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, memory and cluster at HP's Houston Partner laboratory complex. Testing at the HP laboratory complex was conducted using the Novell SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) See SuSE Linux. 9 Validation Suite including the Novell(R) Validated Configuration Program, which defines and certifies multi-application, integrated application and platform stacks on Linux. Moving beyond current industry certification programs, the Novell Validated Configuration Program addresses an integrated stack when multiple components must work together. As a result, customers can smooth deployment of complex, mission critical Linux-based applications. "Grid MP provides several competitive advantages to Linux cluster users," said Ben Rouse, United Devices' chief executive officer. "The Grid-Ready(TM) capabilities for cluster extension now let customers provision and share their HP Cluster Platform resource without purchasing additional grid management packages. And unlike other grid technologies, Grid MP can schedule work to clusters managed by multiple third party resource managers like LSF LSF Lisofylline, see there , PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, or SGE SGE Sun Grid Engine (cluster computing) SGE Starport: Galactic Empires (online game) SGE Siegerland Airport (Airport Code) SGE Small Group Evaluation SGE Support Group Europe ." Grid MP(TM) from United Devices is the only infrastructure management solution that allows organizations to fully leverage and extend the processing power of Linux clusters. A Grid MP-enabled solution can power a cluster-only installation and then easily scale as organizations add both dedicated and non-dedicated resources -- including nodes within the cluster, other clusters, or any compute resource within the department. This "grid-ready" feature of Grid MP allows other nodes to be added and managed easily without manual interventions or procuring additional software packages. In addition, UD's meta-scheduling capabilities enable workload management across a range of third party distributed resource managers (DRMs) already operating on existing clusters. "The expanded capabilities announced with United Devices come at the right time for cluster users," said Bruce Toal, director of marketing at HP. "As demand for high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. power continues to grow, cluster solutions need to be flexible enough to support a wider range of customer needs. By bumping the ProLiant Cluster Platform up to 64-bit and adding Novell SUSE support, we've teamed with United Devices to provide a powerful new resource for the cluster market." The Novell Validated Configuration Program develops fully tested, fully integrated configurations that address enterprise business problems. Each of these configurations will provide Novell customers with all technical and business details necessary to model and accelerate Linux-based solution deployments. Expanding Novell's recently announced data center strategy, the Novell Validated Configuration Program focuses on security, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , systems management and monitoring, and application hosting. The program also supports high performance computing architectures for large-scale transaction processing environments. About United Devices United Devices is a market leader in grid and infrastructure management software and services. The company's products optimize an organization's existing resources (including clusters, servers and desktops) to create an enterprise-wide capacity on-demand environment. United Devices also operates the world's largest grid for grand-scale research that consists of over three million systems in more than 191 countries and territories. United Devices, Grid MP and Grid-Ready are trademarks of United Devices. |
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