Blackstone selects NonStopNet to provide foundation for distributed supercomputing via InternetWorcester 24 January 2001 Blackstone Technology Group, that manufactures compute-farm based distributed supercomputing software and solutions, has engaged NonStopNet as its Internet Infrastructure Partner, to help provide a massively scalable, high-throughput network for enterprises running computationally-intensive applications.
"Internet infrastructures developed for e-business' transaction-based
applications are not optimized for computationally-intensive applications,"
explained Blackstone founder and chief executive officer, Ron Ranauro. "While
thousands of e-business transactions run on a single CPU, computing jobs in chip
design and biotechnology, for example, often span multiple CPUs, and require
tremendous amounts of memory. Furthermore, needs can increase five- to ten-fold
during 'peak demand' periods. NonStopNet's Internet infrastructure is
perfectly-suited to meet the compute power provisioning, distributed data
management, and high-end services requirements of our customers."
Blackstone is targeting application vendors seeking to become ASPs, as well as
enterprises seeking to serve departments via an efficient, internal ASP model.
NonStopNet is co-architecting this infrastructure and will host
Blackstone-optimized, application-specific compute farms within its fault
tolerant network architecture. The cornerstone of NonStopNet's infrastructure
solution is its Undernet - a fully redundant, private high-performance
network that provides a sophisticated failover system for the highest levels of
availability and performance. To ensure the ongoing security, reliability and
health of the provisioning service, NonStopNet will proactively manage
Blackstone's installation via its Network Operations Center (NOC).
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