FREMONT, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Evergrid, Inc., a provider
of global resource management software for next generation data
centers, today announced a partnership with Platform Computing through
the Platform Alliance Network partner program. This partnership will
allow Evergrid to integrate its patent pending high availability and
resource management software, Evergrid Availability Services
(AvS-Batch), with Platform's flagship LSF workload manager. The
resulting solution will allow massively parallelized distributed
applications and single process applications, such as Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) applications, to run at near 100-percent reliability
in high performance computing (HPC) clusters.
Evergrid's AvS-Batch prevents application downtime by automating the
checkpointing, migration and recovery of applications. As a result,
Evergrid provides for automatic application failover across multiple
nodes and tiers. By recording the state of the application, Evergrid is
able to checkpoint and recover from failures at near 100-percent
reliability with minimal overhead. This is especially useful in high
performance technical computing environments where distributed
applications may run for hours and even days. Evergrid's AvS-Batch also
provides for stateful pre-emptive scheduling, which allows users to
checkpoint the entire state of lower priority jobs to disk to allow
higher priority jobs to run immediately. Once the high priority jobs
complete, the checkpointed applications can resume execution on
available resources. This capability ensures that no compute cycles are
ever lost when a job is pre-empted. Evergrid changes the nature of
application pre-emption today, which, with current commercial
technologies, requires the lower priority job to be stopped and
restarted from the beginning, losing all work done to that point in
time. Evergrid's AvS-Batch allows a pre-empted job to resume from the
checkpoint, leveraging all work done by that application up until the
point of pre-emption. Stateful pre-emptive scheduling also lets
commercial applications users make more efficient use of their software
licenses.
"Evergrid's patented transparent application fault tolerance and
stateful pre-emptive scheduling technologies solve critical reliability
and resource utilization issues in today's high performance computing
clusters," said Mitchell Ratner, Evergrid's vice president of Business
Development. "Partnering with Platform Computing, the workload
management leader in the high performance computing (HPC) cluster
space, makes perfect sense from a business and customer
perspective."
"Our customers with high performance computing clusters environments
will be delighted to know that they now have access to an integrated
solution that provides stateful, pre-emptive scheduling and
checkpoint/recovery capabilities for single process and parallel
applications," said Simon Lonsdale, director of Strategic Alliances at
Platform Computing. "Evergrid's Availability Services software is the
perfect complement to Platform's LSF workload manager," added Lonsdale.
"Together, Platform and Evergrid will provide our mutual customers in
demanding, large-scale, computing-intensive sectors with a seamless
solution to their continuous availability and resource management
problems."
About Evergrid, Inc.
Evergrid, a provider of global resource management software for next
generation data centers, lets massively parallelized, distributed
applications run on high performance cluster grids at near 100 percent
reliability. Evergrid's fault tolerant application abstraction software
prevents downtime, automates checkpoint, migration and recovery of
applications, and scales to thousands of nodes, with less than five
percent performance overhead.
Evergrid's leadership team brings extensive management and
technology expertise from IBM, Amdahl, VERITAS, Motorola, Tandem
Computers and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Evergrid is a private company that is funded, in part, by Menlo
Ventures and the Acartha Group. For more information, visit http://www.evergrid.com/
About Platform Computing, Inc.
Platform Computing is the leading systems infrastructure software
company that accelerates applications and delivers IT agility for
increased business performance and reduced cost. Founded in 1992,
Platform is a pioneer in HPC, Cluster and Grid Computing
technologies.
Platform has over 2,000 global customers and strategic relationships
with Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat and SAS, along with the
industry's broadest support for third-party applications. For more
information, visit http://www.platform.com/
Media contacts: Evergrid, Inc. Patricia Colby (650) 543-4703 patricia@pageonepr.com
Platform Computing, Inc. Donna Teggart Director, Marketing
Communications (905) 948-4670 dteggart@platform.com http://www.platform.com/ Evergrid, Inc.
CONTACT: Patricia Colby of Evergrid, Inc., +1-650-543-4703,
patricia@pageonepr.com; or
Donna Teggart, Director, Marketing Communications
of Platform Computing, Inc., +1-905-948-4670, dteggart@platform.com
