is a privately-held, commercial
Distributed Computing company that focuses on
CPU Scavenging and
Enterprise Cluster Management . Started in 1999 and founded in 2000, United Devices is built on distributed computing expertise from
Distributed.net and
SETI@home although few of the original technical staff from those organization are still on board. It is based in
Austin, Texas with 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.
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 that allows users to perform efficient scheduling within an organization that has multiple
Job Scheduler s already deployed and controlling independent clusters. Supported schedulers include
Sun GridEngine ,
Platform LSF ,
PBS ,
LoadLeveler , and even
Grid MP .
United Devices operates a series of public projects on their
Grid.org website as part of a
Philanthropic effort. It also acts as a
Marketing tool, helping to spread awareness of the
Grid MP Global product as well as demonstrating the platform's
Scalability . 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 .
The company publishes a list of high-profile organizations using ''Grid MP'' on
the United Devices website . However, some of the larger and more prominent users include:
