Univa Grid Engine Product Optimizes Computing Environment

Univa (News - Alert), the data center automation company, announced the rising popularity of its commercial Grid Engine product in all regions and industries in the United States.

The company provides optimization and management software encompassing workload management to policy-driven provisioning across physical, virtual and cloud resources for traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers. Univa products improve resource sharing, enhances working of people and processes, and increases application and license utilization.

In a release, Fritz Ferstl, Grid Engine founding developer and Univa CTO stated, “Univa offers a simple path forward for users seeking improved and predictable cluster uptime. Univa helps our customers meet the business objectives of their high performance computing environment with continued use of Grid Engine and the avoidance of large costs and the complete restart associated with migrating to an incompatible workload management product.”

Company officials clarified that, since the launch of Univa Grid Engine six months ago, Univa has signed several long-term contracts with many demanding Grid Engine users, including TATA Automotive Steel Engineering, Hess Corporation, Motorola (News - Alert) Mobility, Panasonic, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and NASA.

Univa Grid Engine is used successfully in large and complex production environments that have hundreds to thousands of core counts. This optimizes operations and improves stability for customers.

Mike Twelves, Tata Steel Automotive Engineering (TSAE) said, “We upgraded to the first Univa Grid Engine release in May 2011. One of the development teams came to our site to carry out the update, and I would class it as one of the smoothest updates we have ever undertaken. In addition to the update, we had a ‘best practice’ review, took time to do some knowledge exchange/training, and were able to implement a number of minor enhancements through a better understanding of some of the more detailed configuration options.”

Univa sources added that Univa Grid Engine will be available as a Free Trial with 48 cores that is downloadable for free from the Web site. This will serve the needs of high performance computing for users. Also open source users will benefit from the free 48 core offering.

In May 2011, Univa announced that it has partnered with Eucalyptus Systems (News - Alert) to enable organizations to seamlessly integrate Eucalyptus on-premise cloud management software into their Grid Engine compute environments. This enables organizations using Grid Engine to fully exploit the benefits of dynamic, scalable and self-serve cloud systems within the backbone of their production compute and data analysis infrastructures.

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