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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Applications:
NEW GRID 'ZERO MIDDLEWARE' FOR FORTUNE 1000s
Mobile Agent Technologies announced the release of AgentOS, a next generation
Grid computing environment. During its initial introduction, it will only be
available to a very limited number of select Fortune 1000 companies. From a
functional perspective, the software breaks down traditional Java-based
business applications into self contained tasks and distributes them across a
heterogeneous network for simultaneous parallel execution. The tasks are
embodied as mobile agents that serve as the basic building block of business
applications. Each agent carries out a discreet task, known as a "unit of
work," within the environment. The software can be used as an integral
infrastructure component within an enterprise Java environment to massively
scale business applications and geometrically increase their performance and
reliability. The technology is perfectly suited for electronic commerce
applications. Other types of applications that would benefit most from this
technology include business intelligence and analytics, data mining, complex
algorithms and business logic that is heavily reliant upon rules engine
technology.
Existing first generation Grid computing products have architectures that are
tightly coupled to a legacy n-tier computing model which requires that at
least one server (perhaps a cluster) runs within a middle tier. The virtual
execution environment, as well as business applications, must communicate to
this middleware to request work assignments and indicate what work needs to be
done respectively. If the middleware software fails or is just unavailable,
for any reason, the execution environments and client application will sit by
idly.
Mobile Agent's product design is based upon a patent-pending "zero middleware"
architecture, which means that Grid components, including those for
dispatching tasks, environment monitoring, resource utilization and
scheduling, have been moved out to both the application and virtualization
execution layers. The proprietary technology provides a true peer to peer
computing paradigm in the broadest sense. AgentOS' architecture ensures that
the application can communicate directly to the virtualization layer at all
times, and completely eliminates the need for middleware, ensuring better
performance, greater reliability and infinitely scaleable systems.
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