Special Features:
NTT HAS United Devices BRING
GRID
COMPUTING TO JAPAN
United Devices, the market leader in secure grid software and service
solutions, announced a partnership with NTT Data Corporation to bring large-
scale grid computing to the Japanese market.
Under the agreement, United Devices will combine its MetaProcessor platform
with NTT Data's existing expertise in broadband networking to provide a high-
performance computing grid to businesses that will benefit from on-demand
access to massive compute power.
"We've already seen the success our customers and partners are achieving in
several different market segments in the U.S.," said CEO of United Devices, Ed
Hubbard.
"The fact that NTT Data, Japan's top systems integrator, is providing this
service to their customers bodes well for Japanese research and enterprise
businesses who are showing strong demand for this level of computing."
Key differentiators that prompted NTT Data's selection of United Devices
were the proven scalability of the MetaProcessor platform, the ease of
migrating commercial and proprietary applications and the industry's leading
security framework.
"We are conducting a large-scale trial, utilizing the MetaProcessor
platform as well as some hundred thousand PCs on high-bandwidth Internet
connections to demonstrate the value of high-performance grid computing in
solving research and business problems," said Cell Computing Project Reader at
NTT Data Corporation, Shoji Yarimizu.
"Our success with these sectors will set the stage for commercial use of
grid computing in Japan."
By leveraging the resources of existing assets, enterprises can now expand
the scope of research, accelerate the delivery of results to market, and drive
product quality while controlling or even reducing computing budgets.
United Devices patent-pending MetaProcessor platform enables organizations
to dramatically enhance the performance of their compute-intensive
applications by aggregating compute resources across grid clusters, servers,
workstations, and PCs.
About United Devices
United Devices, the market leader in secure grid solutions, designs and
builds customizable commercial grid solutions for its customers to deliver
products and services to market more quickly and cost effectively.
This is done by aggregating PCs, workstations and servers on a network and
turning them into a virtual supercomputer capable of running a wide range of
high-performance computing applications in a number of industries, including
life sciences, geosciences, and financial services.
About NTT Data
We at NTT DATA see ourselves as creators of a new paradigm in the
information network society. By showing our customers how to use information
technologies to their strategic advantage, we give them the skills they need
to generate products and ideas that are valuable to them and to society. NTT
DATA is Japan's top systems-integrator company.
We have engineered much of Japan's public IT infrastructure through a
series of large projects for both the public and private sector. In addition,
we have built a vast number of corporate network systems.
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