Special
Features:
ENTROPIA'S DCGRID SELECTED BY
LARGE HEALTH
CARE COMPANIES
Entropia
Inc, a
leading provider
of PC grid computing solutions, announcedthat one of
the world's top five
health care companies has purchased DCGridto
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 WindowsTM-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," continued
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
a 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.
http://www.entropia.com
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