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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | Lisle, Illinois (2004) |
| Headquarters | Lisle, Illinois Austin, Texas |
| Key people | Management team |
| Industry | Cloud computing Distributed computing, Grid computing, Computer software |
| Products | UniCloud, Reliance, Grid MP UniCluster |
| Website | www.univaud.com |
Univa UD is a privately held software company that sells cloud computing management software products to IT service providers, data centers, and technical or high-performance computing organizations.
It was founded in 2004 under the name Univa Corporation by Carl Kesselman, Ian Foster, and Steve Tuecke and was at that time primarily known for providing open source products and technical support based around the Globus Toolkit.[1][2]
On September 17, 2007, the company announced that it would merge with the Austin, Texas-based United Devices and operate under the new name Univa UD.[3]
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Products
- UniCloud — a software product for creating internal (or "private") cloud computing environments and/or for extending internal computing environments into an external (or "public") cloud service such as Amazon EC2.
- Reliance — designed specifically for the datacenter to provide automated infrastructure and application SLA management and to ensure application service levels are honored by monitoring events and performing provisioning actions based on these events.
- UniCluster — an open source Cluster Management Toolkit that bundles the Sun Grid Engine scheduler and monitoring and HPC capabilities.
- Grid MP — an advanced job scheduler and application provisioning platform, targeted for large-scale grid deployments.
Consulting services
Univa UD also offers consulting services to migrate proprietary Platform LSF customers to open source Sun Grid Engine-based UniCluster Express. [4]
See also
- Cloud computing
- Distributed computing
- Computational grid
- CPU scavenging
- Grid computing
- Job schedulers
References
- ^ "Sun, Univa Give Partnership a Boost". July 30, 2007. http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1691219.html.
- ^ Univa Closes $8M Series-A Investment Round
- ^ Shread, Paul (September 19, 2007). "United Devices, Univa to Merge". Enterprise IT Planet. http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/networking/news/article.php/3700406.
- ^ TOP 20 GLOBAL PHARMA: Replacing Platform LSF With UniCluster Express
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