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VITA NUOVA ANNOUNCES INFERNO
SYSTEM GRID SUPPORT
Vita Nuova announced support for Grid Computing within the Inferno System.
Inferno now provides distributed computation, job scheduling, Grid monitoring
and process co-ordination for Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. Web browsers
can be used for remote access and control.
These new application services apply Inferno's novel approach to building
distributed systems which was invented at Bell Labs and has been used in
large-scale commercial distributed systems.
"Grids need not be as difficult to design, implement and maintain as some
other Grid technologies make them appear to users and programmers," says
Michael Jeffrey CEO of Vita Nuova. "Grids are distributed systems. We looked
carefully at the application functionality provided by Grid technologies, and
found much of it straightforward to implement with Inferno. We have applied
Inferno's general approach to building distributed systems to this specific
application area. The speed and ease with which we have created a competitive
Grid solution emphasises the importance of starting with the right design and
the right set of tools. We believe we have the potential to be very successful
in Grid computing."
Vita Nuova is targeting the life and bio-science companies amongst others
for
whom the management of their computation resources is an important challenge.
The company expects to see more general application of its Grid technology in
the area of Data Grids and Instrument Grids in years to come.
A collection of Grid demonstrations is available at
http://www.vitanuova.com/grid that illustrates how Inferno can be used to
access resources as varied as computation, services, data and devices that are
distributed around the network. Inferno itself is free to download from the
Vita Nuova Web site at www.vitanuova.com/inferno.
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