United Devices

United Devices, Inc. is a privately-held, commercial distributed computing company that focuses on CPU scavenging and Computer cluster. Started in 1999 built on distributed computing expertise from distributed.net and , the company has a few of the original technical geniuses on board. It is based primarily in Austin, Texas, but also has satellite offices in Paris, France and Pune, India. In August 2005, United Devices acquired the Paris-based GridXpert company, and added Synergy to its product lineup.

= Commercial operations =

Its primary commercial product is called Grid MP and is offered in various editions, depending on the scalability needs of the customer. From Grid MP Workstation , to Grid MP Cluster , to Grid MP Enterprise , to Grid MP Global it can handle a variety of different-sized requirements.

It also has a secondary product called MP Insight that allows customers to perform data analysis to determine if their corporate computing resources are being effectively used.

The MP Synergy product is a metascheduler to allow users to perform efficient scheduling within an organization that has multiple job schedulers already deployed and controlling independent clusters. Supported schedulers include Platform LSF, Portable Batch System, LoadLeveler, and even Grid MP.

= Public philanthropy =

United Devices also operates a series of public projects on their grid.org website as part of a philanthropic effort to improve humanity. It also has the side-effect of acting as a marketing tool, helping to spread awareness of the Grid MP product, and proving the scalability of it. Some of the costs associated with operating the past projects on grid.org have been financially sponsored in part by companies including Microsoft, Intel, and IBM.

==Projects==

United Devices Cancer Research Project is seeking possible drugs for the treatment of cancer using distributed computer power.

World Community Grid is currently operating the Human Proteome Folding Project in cooperation with United Devices.

= Announced Users =

There is a diverse set of high-profile organizations that are known to be using Grid MP are published at [http://www.ud.com/company/customers/ the United Devices website]. However, some of the larger and more prominent users are known to include:

Public, Philanthropic, or Non-profit:

United Devices Cancer Research Project

World Community Grid

American Diabetes Association

Commercial corporations:

Novartis

Johnson & Johnson

GlaxoSmithKline

National Physical Laboratory

Hewlett-Packard

IBM

Intel

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

Universities:

University of Texas at Austin

Purdue University

Texas A&M University

University of Oxford

University of Florida

= External links =

[http://www.ud.com/ Official corporate website]

[http://www.grid.org/ Public distributed computing projects operated by United Devices]

[http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/105/105503.html Corporate profile on Yahoo! business]

[http://www.wikicompany.org/wiki/United_Devices Corporate profile on WikiCompany]

= See also =

Distributed computing

Computational grid

CPU scavenging

Grid computing

Job schedulers