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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 19, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 20
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Systems/Enterprise:
SPANISH GRID TECHNOLOGY FOR THE
JAPANESE MARKET
BestSystems and the Spanish company GridSystems have signed a distribution
agreement that will grant Grid Research Inc, a subsidiary of BestSystems, the
ability to distribute the InnerGrid Software developed by GridSystems in the
Japanese market. The agreement includes duties about both commercialization
and support.
The knowledge of the market, its experience in the supercomputing and Grid
technologies and their important network of offices all across Japan have been
the main reasons for GridSystems to bet on BestSystems as an ideal candidate
to start the introduction of InnerGrid in the Japanese market.
"The agreement signed with BestSystems increases the international presence
of
GridSystems and proves the quality and competitiveness of our product,
introducing it into the Japanese market together with one of the best
consulting companies in the supercomputing field of this country. All the
international analysts predict that the supercomputing and Grid market will
[show] an important increase in the period 2003-2006", says Joan Masso,
GridSystems CEO.
InnerGrid: Recently awarded by the European Commission with the European
IST
Prize 2003, InnerGrid is GridSystems' sophisticated multi-platform software
product that obtains the maximum performance from a group of computers using
Grid technology. It is specially focused on corporate, academic and research
environments.
This product has been designed to exploit to the maximum all the resources
(CPU cycles, disk capacities, etc.) of a heterogeneous set of computers
(dedicated and not dedicated Windows and Unix computers). InnerGrid is an easy
to use and administrate, robust, fault tolerant, and secure system.
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