GridIron Software and Microsoft have introduced GridIron X-Factor for Windows Media Encoder, a software solution that speeds digital video encoding using Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder by dividing and distributing the work ordinarily performed on a single computer among multiple networked computers.
The software-based solution makes encoding progressively faster as more computers are used, dramatically reducing the time spent encoding lengthy or high-resolution digital video. For digital post-production professionals working in film-quality and HD formats, X-Factor for Windows Media Encoder offers the superior quality and compression of the Windows Media Format with improved encoding speed.
X-Factor for Windows Media Encoder is the second in the X-Factor series of products that use grid computing to enhance the performance of digital post-production software. GridIron also offers X-Factor for Adobe After Effects to speed preview processing and rendering of motion graphics and effects.
A free Basic edition of X-Factor will be made available for download with Microsoft Windows Media Encoder. Information about further pricing and licensing options can be found at GridIron's Web site, www.gridironxfactor.com.
Digipede Announces Public Beta Program
Digipede Technologies (www.digipede.net) announced its public beta program for the Digipede Network, offering users an opportunity to test drive its solution, which the company claims is the first commercial distributed computing solution based entirely on Microsoft .NET.
Digipede says its solution "dramatically improves the speed and scalability of real-world business applications and is radically easier to buy, install, learn and use than other grid computing solutions."
The Digipede Network requires no custom configuration and on-site implementation help, the company says, and customers can be up and running in an hour.
The Digipede Network is available in two editions, Team and Professional. Pricing for the Digipede Network Team Edition starts at $995 for a system licensing one Digipede server and five agents; additional agents can be licensed for $199 each.
Aspeed Software Ships Accellerant 3.1 for Cluster and Grid Environments
Aspeed Software (www.aspeed.com) announced the availability of Accellerant 3.1, a solution that the company says quickly enables high-performance computing single-thread and multi-thread applications to leverage the benefits of grid and cluster environments.
The solution includes a software developers' kit with APIs and services that can be embedded in the existing code or used to wrap binary instances of the application to be parallelized. Once Accellerant has been applied, the application can be automatically run across multiple CPUs or Linux or Windows systems with predictable, scalable performance and stall and fault tolerance.
InforSense and the BioTeam Partner on Grid for Bioinformatics
InforSense Limited and The BioTeam Inc. announced a partnership to integrate their products, and that the BioTeam has joined the InforSense Open Workflow Partner Network as a Certified Solutions Provider.
The companies will work to integrate the BioTeam's informatics clustering kit, iNquiry, with InforSense's workflow-based integrative analytics environment, InforSense KDE, to develop a high-performance grid computing environment for bioinformatics study in life science industrial and research organizations.
Appistry Announces New Infrastructure Software
Appistry — formerly known as Tsunami Research — said it is bringing scalability and fault tolerance to SOA and grid-inspired systems with Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric 2.3 (Appistry EAF).
Appistry EAF manages an underlying pool of servers on behalf of an application, creating an application fabric that serves as a grid-based enterprise application server.
Mellanox and Terrascale Partner on Low-Cost Grid I/O
Mellanox Technologies announced a solution that enables hundreds of server nodes using InfiniBand interconnects to access a global file system namespace while maintaining linear scaling to the point of total disk bandwidth saturation.
The solution consists of TerraGrid software from Terrascale and open-source, Linux-based sockets direct protocol software. Using 10 gigabit per second InfiniBand interconnects with this solution instead of gigabit Ethernet delivers at least a three times storage throughput increase for clustered and grid computing applications, Mellanox said.
Gridbus Project To Release GridSim Toolkit 3.2
The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia has released the next version its grid simulation software, the GridSim Toolkit 3.2.
The new version of GridSim includes multiple regional GridInformationService (GIS) entities connected in a network topology, allowing the functionality of a virtual organization (VO), and also adds the ability to select or filter an event from the incoming entity's queue based on set criteria.
All components developed as part of the GridSim Toolkit are released as open source under the GPL license.
To download the GridSim software, visit the Gridbus Project Web site at www.gridbus.org/gridsim.
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