United Devices announces grid-computing agreement with IBM.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. recently announced the company has signed a master relationship agreement with 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) . As part of this agreement, the companies will pursue joint marketing activities and sales to customers in life sciences, oil and gas, government, industrial engineering, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and several other important markets. IBM and United Devices will collaborate to bring the benefits 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 to both large enterprise and mid-market customers in targeted industries. Together, both companies have deployed hardware and software solutions at organizations such as Sanofi-Synthelabo, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform Data and the University of Purdue. United Devices offers IBM's DB2 database software as a standard bundled offering with the Grid MP Enterprise platform. In addition, United Devices plans to introduce a version of its software intended to run on IBM eServer pSeries computers by the end of the year. The companies offer turnkey IBM grid solutions including eServer xSeries servers and Linux products. "At Purdue, DB2 serves a wide variety of purposes," said David Moffett, 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 at Purdue University. "It is the underlying Linux database for our 2000+ host United Devices Grid/UD deployment. This diversity of platforms with a common set of administration tools reduces our training needs while providing a very capable database." "This partnership follows a natural evolution in our relationship to take enterprise grid adoption to the next level," 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. "We started using IBM servers and DB2 to run our global research at Grid.org and followed that up with a large number of enterprise deployments. Now, we have further solidified our relationship into a formal business partnership to address the needs of our enterprise grid customers." The United Devices' Grid MP Platform is proven to be scaleable, manageable and secure on the largest general-purpose public grid in the world at Grid.org and has been optimized for deployment in corporate enterprises as well as hosted, pay-per-use services. Companies using commercial or proprietary applications can now achieve dramatic increases in speed and scope--drastically improving ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and time to market. United Devices is the market leader in secure grid computing 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 grid.org, the world's largest public Grid for grand-scale research consisting of more than 2 million devices in over 220 countries. |
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