GridEngine downloaded to over thousand sites in one yearLas Vegas 19 June 2001 Sun Grid Engine software has been embraced by many EDA companies as their distributed resource management (DRM) tool to improve their design cycles and time to market. Sun also used the DAC event to announce new product support programs as well as its latest version of Sun Grid Engine 5.2.3 software, available for free download.
Sun Grid Engine software aggregates available compute resources and delivers
compute power as a network service. It is designed to harness idle compute
resources, match them to individual job requirements and deliver network-wide
compute power to the desktop, thus speeding time to market and changing the
economics of technical computing.
Market research has shown that a typical organization uses a mere 15 percent of
its available compute resources. Sun Grid Engine software can help boost
utilization rates to nearly 100 percent.
The European division of Sony Semiconductors and Devices, based in the United
Kingdom, needed a more flexible compute solution to handle peak demands from its
EDA engineers. Sony understood the wasted resources in underutilized processors
on the desktop, and knew that software products existed to address these needs.
Sony sought to connect more than 80 Sun workstations, and to pool these desktop
resources with a centralized compute farm. Using Sun Grid Engine software to
find available compute resources in the farm, designers free themselves from
this time-wasting task. By increasing efficiency in the design process and
harnessing the compute power of the network, Sony improved its time to market
and reliability.
Synopsys, creator of industry-standard electronic design automation tools, was
looking for an effective DRM software solution to take advantage of workstations
that might sit idle or are otherwise underused. When Synopsys evaluated Sun Grid
Engine software, the performance benefits became clear, and these benefits had
an impact on the efficiency of the software development model.
Sun Grid Engine software has been downloaded for use at over 1,000 sites in
nearly 90 countries around the globe since its launch in September 2000. In
order to keep pace with this explosive interest, Sun continues to build its
support and integration mechanisms for the DRM tool.
Sun has teamed with Blackstone Technology
Group to provide a wide range of support and consulting services. Sun has also
embarked on a specialized training program for its sales and VAR channels to
enhance support for Sun Grid Engine software customers worldwide. Called the
Grid Computing Certification Program, The courses are expected to lead to highly
qualified Sun Certified Grid Computing Specialists who can offer expert
installation and support services. And in July, Sun expects to announce its
plans to provide the source code of the software to the open source community.
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