Grid computing has a new startup, courtesy of Australia's Gridbus project.
Manjrasoft is charged with commercializing the grid and cloud computing software technologies developed by the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne. The venture will be led by Raj Buyya, leader of the seven-year-old grid computing project.
Buyya said in an e-mail that the startup "will primarily focus on developing and selling our software technologies to enterprises and ISVs. They will use our software to set up their own enterprise Grid/Cloud to run/execute their applications."
The project's core technology is aimed at improving performance and scalability in Windows-based software application and development frameworks by distributing application processing within .NET enterprise environments, and the project is also at work on extending those abilities for the peering of cloud computing across networks.
Extensive prototyping of the technologies has been completed and the software is approaching beta deployment, according to a press release.
"It is exciting to reach this point and to have already identified a number of interested trial customers," Buyya said in the release. "I am convinced our technology will make a strong impact on the industry and lead to a successful business."
Ivan Mellado of Melbourne Ventures has been working with Buyya on the venture. Melbourne Ventures and the University will provide in-kind support to facilitate the transition to a commercial operation, and Mellado will join the board of directors. An AusIndustry COMET grant is also helping the startup.
Buyya said cloud computing "is about being able to readily distribute, scale, manage and quickly reconfigure computing tasks across discrete pieces of infrastructure, and the opportunity is open for Manjrasoft's technology to quickly establish itself as a central building block within cloud computing."
Mellado added that the startup's technology could also be used to take advantage of multi-core chip capabilities.
Buyya said he views cloud computing as a resource or service that serves a role similar to a power plant, while grid computing "connects multiple power plants and delivers power to customers that need them."
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