United Devices Secures Leadership Position in Second Vertical via Acquisition; GridXpert Addition Provides Manufacturing Expertise and Reference Customer Base; Expands Enterprise Offerings.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. (TM), a leading provider of grid and high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) infrastructure software and services, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Paris-based GridXpert, the industry's leading meta-scheduling solution provider. The acquisition establishes United Devices as the premium grid solution provider in two of the top three High Performance Computing (HPC) segments - Life Sciences and Manufacturing/Design. GridXpert currently leads the Manufacturing industry in providing enterprise grid middleware and meta-scheduling solutions. In addition to market and technology expansion, the acquisition provides a base for expanding the company's European operations. "United Devices is focused on serving Global 2000 companies that are embracing grid technology as a strategic platform. Robust HPC management tools such as meta-scheduling and capacity management are needed to enable enterprise-wide expansions and to offer grid as a service from central IT organizations," said Ben Rouse, 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. of United Devices. "GridXpert offers the industry's leading meta-scheduling solution and largest collection of reference customer installations in this area. No other grid or HPC vendor provides the quality and range of enterprise-level infrastructure management tools that our combined company will offer." "GridXpert is excited about joining forces with United Devices," said Sven Lung, CEO of GridXpert. "The combined entity will offer the industry's most mature and scalable grid solutions via its technology portfolio, domain expertise, product development capacity, and global reach. The result is more value for our customers and prospects." GX Synergy is a robust, platform-independent package that offers virtualized control of the entire HPC infrastructure. With GX Synergy, organizations can manage job scheduling In a large computer, establishing a job queue to run a sequence of programs over any period of time such as a single shift, a full day, etc. across heterogeneous, widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms enterprise resources - including clusters operated by third party resource managers, dedicated servers, and non-dedicated desktop resources. "Our GridXpert solution has been critical in implementing a grid to offer our clients a flexible, on-demand environment for running simulations. They can make use of the infrastructure when they need it and only get charged for what they use," said Alain Roumiguier, sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → at CETIM CETIM Centre Europe-Tiers Monde (French: Europe-Third World Centre; Geneva, Switzerland) CETIM Centre d'Etudes et de Technologies de l'Industrie des Matériaux de Construction (French) . "We are looking forward to the additional value that United Devices will provide with its broad pool of resources, technical expertise, and track record of customer satisfaction." United Devices will integrate the GX Synergy(TM) meta-scheduling capability into its HPC infrastructure management suite, which will strengthen its vender neutral, heterogeneous position via enhanced support for clusters, distributed resource managers, and dedicated servers. United Devices will also grid-enable the most popular HPC applications in Manufacturing/Design to quickly enable its new vertical focus and customer base. United Devices will maintain GridXpert's Paris office as its European headquarters. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. About United Devices United Devices is a market leader in high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure software and services. The company's 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) products optimize an organization's existing HPC resources (Clusters, Servers, and Desktops) to create a secure capacity on-demand environment. United Devices also operates one of the world's largest grid for grand-scale research that consists of more than three million systems in more than 191 countries and territories. For more on high-end, enterprise grid solutions: www.ud.com. For more on public grids: www.grid.org. About GridXpert GridXpert is the leading provider of HPC meta-scheduling solutions across all verticals and is the leading grid solution provider in the Manufacturing/Design industry. Popular uses of 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 in Manufacturing include industrial numerical simulation, consolidation, and crash simulation A crash simulation is a virtual recreation of a destructive crash test of a car using a computer simulation in order to examine the level of safety of the car and its occupants. in the automotive sector. United Devices, Grid MP and Grid-Ready are trademarks of United Devices. |
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