Grid Computing News : Univa UD Puts Its Cluster Software in the Cloud

Univa UD has published a white paper that gives users step-by-step instructions for using its open source cluster product in Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) web service. Univa UD sponsored BioTeam Inc., a life sciences informatics consultancy and systems integrator, to document the process and publish the tools for implementing its UniCluster product in EC2. UniCluster is an open source cluster software stack that integrates widely used open source components, such as Sun Grid Engine, into a free download that simplifies cluster deployment, configuration and management. UniCluster is available for download at Grid.org, the online open source cluster and grid community launched by the company last year. "Often there are core, company-operated systems handling authentication, data staging and workflow, while the remote systems operating across Metro or WAN-scale networking distances are merely used as engines for computation." "The best practices published as a result of this project extend Univa UD's cluster software management capability securely to the cloud, a key step in the operational aspect of the HPC lifecycle management," stated Gary Tyreman, Univa UD's vice president and general manager of HPC.... read more