Special Features:
Entropia's DCGrid SELECTED BY HEALTH CARE
COMPANY
Enterprise architecture and ease of integrating
commercial and proprietary
applications are the key reasons the organization
chose Entropia for its first
venture into PC grid computing.
Entropia,
a leading provider of PC grid computing solutions, will announce
that one of
the world's top five health care companies has purchased DCGrid to
increase
their high-performance computing capacity available for executing
applications
that aid drug research and discovery.
The company's goal in deploying
a PC grid is to explore and exploit the
untapped potential of their networked
PCs as a complement to their other
computing platforms.
Entropia's
DCGrid, a powerful and cost-effective PC grid computing platform
that provides
high-performance computing capabilities by aggregating the
unused processing
cycles of networks of existing Windows-based PCs, was
deployed at one of this
customer's U.S. pharmaceutical research sites.
Additional sites within their
global organization will then be brought on-line
over time to meet the
company's business needs.
"With an ever-increasing appetite for
compute power in this organization's R&D
centers, PC grids will have immediate
impact for executing computationally
intensive applications and offer an
on-demand resource well-suited for their
growing needs.
One reason
DCGrid was chosen is that it is the only PC grid solution designed
to work
within the enterprise and support the execution of a wide range of
commercial
and proprietary applications without the need for source code
modification.
This enables rapid application deployment both initially as well
as with
subsequent software revisions," said Bill Philbin, senior vice
president of
product development and COO at Entropia.
"As organizations continue to
feel the pressure to stretch their capital
dollars further in today's
challenging economic times, the ability to harness
the untapped computing
power within their PCs becomes critical," continues
Philbin. "Entropia's
expertise and focus is to unlock the unrealized value
trapped within an
organization's PCs and to turn a wasted resource into one
that provides
on-demand computing power."
About Entropia
Entropia Inc is
the leader in PC grid computing. Entropia's grid computing
solutions harness
and manage the untapped processing power of desktop PCs
within an enterprise
network to process computationally intensive jobs for
business and scientific
applications. Entropia's solutions benefit enterprises
that deploy
compute-intensive applications such as those widely used in
pharmaceutical,
material sciences, chemical and financial services industries.
By unleashing
the untapped power of existing PCs, Entropia's solutions
accelerate innovation
and dramatically increase the return on investment for
an enterprise's
computing and network infrastructure.
Entropia's DCGrid product line,
with its easily scalable architecture and open
technology platform, delivers
computing capabilities that meet or exceed the
power of high performance
compute clusters -- at a fraction of the cost.
Existing proprietary and
commercial applications can be deployed on the DCGrid
platform quickly and
easily using DCGrid's rapid integration features which
allow enterprises to
achieve business objectives faster, with higher
throughput, increased
precision and more meaningful results in less time than
previously
possible.
Ultimately, DCGrid solutions enable new and more difficult
problems to be
solved -- problems enterprises previously simply didn't have
the computing
power to attack.
Founded in 1997, the company is
headquartered in San Diego, California.
http://www.entropia.com
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