Potential customers are interested in ease of implementation and integration and they don’t want to be vendor-bound, the CTO notes, adding that integration takes less than an hour and requires only a small 2-line xml file. Traditional HPC usually requires costly investments of time and resources in hardware, training and expertise, whereas process virtualization leverages the customers own resources. You don’t need to install any software on the remote machines,” he adds. “The process does not care where it’s running because we will create all the environment for it. When the process needs some files from the local machine, the software acts like a middleman between the process and the operating system and we can take all that environment that the process requires on demand from the initial machine, cache it on the remote machine and give the process everything it needs in order to work on the remote machine,” explains Exterman. “We can take a process and virtualize it on the network. The solution combines grid and virtualization, but instead of virtualizing entire machines like VMware does, the technology virtualizes a single process. This extra work makes sense for very demanding applications like real-time financial trading, but Xoreax is targeting more general-purpose workloads that are also process-intensive. Traditional grid solutions require the user to change the source code and target an API. Unlike other grid and virtualization solutions, IncrediBuild works out of the box. The solution is currently Windows-only, and there aren’t many Windows solutions for this kind of cycle scavenging.” “We have an agent in every machine and create a private grid out of all these machines and can also scale out to the cloud. “It’s like having virtual HPC – every workstation in this network can scale out to tap into the amount of resources that is in the entire network,” says CTO Dori Exterman. Typical server and CPU utilization rates are notoriously low IncrediBuild finds all that spare compute capability and exposes it. It runs on a company’s existing Windows infrastructure and extends into the public cloud if more resources are required. The software harnesses unutilized CPUs to create a private grid. Their IncrediBuild-XGE (Xoreax Grid Engine) software uses a unique technology called process level virtualization to create a virtual HPC machine. Xoreax got its start back in 2002 and for the last 10 years, they’ve been accelerating software in the Windows environment, using distributed, aka grid, computing technology. We spoke with Xoreax at SC12 in Salt Lake City, Utah, last week to learn more about their offering. What if you could combine the benefits of virtualization, grid and cloud computing to accelerate Windows-based applications? An Israeli company, Xoreax, is doing just that. Since 1987 - Covering the Fastest Computers in the World and the People Who Run Them
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