You Have a Supercomputer and Didn??t Know It
Source: Maureen O Gara
Xoreax, a 10-year-old Israeli software acceleration house, says it can employ the idle PCs and servers cycles in a corporate network SETI-like to create a so-called private processing cloud - Windows-based, of course - that's got the heavy-duty commute of a virtual supercomputer.
It seems it's a matter of accelerating time-intensive computational processes.
The company's new signature IncrediBuild-XGE, an agent-based distributed computing solution, is supposed to let ISVs and application developers create this virtual cloud environment.
They can reportedly add features to it while tickling the processing.
Xoreax promises as much as 30x faster processing on complex software (best with not too many data transfers apparently). It makes applications run faster and accelerate builds.
Now standalone for the first time, IncrediBuild-XGE is already a proven technology. XGE, the underlying widgetry that powers the IncrediBuild build acceleration platform, is reportedly used by 100,000 users at 2,000 organizations, including Google, Microsoft, eBay, Electronic Arts, CitiGroup and Nvidia. Something like 20 of the Fortune 100.
XGE is said to transform a network of regular office PCs and servers into a cloud in which every node - from user workstations to dedicated servers - contributes unutilized processing power to form a dynamic, accessible, fault-tolerant HPC environment, eliminating the need for expensive, dedicated computer farms. The company says it radically lowers ongoing maintenance costs.
Applications can burst out to public clouds.
The distributed computing architecture accelerates computational processes running on Windows and makes them "grid-enabled" with near-zero implementation costs.
The company says faster processing frees up time to focus on product development and enables the addition of complex features that were prohibitively time-consuming, creating a strategic competitive advantage.
Most grid engine solutions and HPC platforms require major adaptation and tight integration and create a lock-in for ISVs. IncrediBuild-XGE offers no changes to existing source code and architecture; no resource management; no virtualization image bank; no prior setups or installations; no dedicated hardware requirements; and rapid and cost-effective implementation.
Xoreaux claims early users have seen significantly reduced processing times for complex applications and gained game-changing strategic advantages from embedding XGE in their applications.
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