Testimonials

"We can do the same amount of simulation as we used to do in significantly less time because of the automated resource management, so we can deliver projects faster."

"In the end, J&J's grid should make drug discovery faster and more economical. It should also enhance patient safety and fine-tune therapeutics."

"We realized a breakthrough in our internal processes... whilst improving productivity, quality of service, ease of use, and reducing scientific infrastructure costs by more than 20%."

"The grid enabled us to run significantly more simulation than we could otherwise have done, which leads to a better understanding of system dynamics and more optimized system design."

"The grid opens new possibilities in terms of the number of iterations of calculations available to us. Today we can launch a calculation according to as many scenarios as necessary, and therefore give our customers an optimal quality solution."

"We have delivered good performance and proved grids are good for cost avoidance, but what I'm most proud of are comments from researchers who say we couldn't do the research we're doing today if the grid wasn't there."

"Univa UD... has helped us to improve the efficiency of our teams and the productivity of our installation. Engineers can easily launch computing jobs whose execution is then completely automated."

"What used to take months can now be done in weeks."

"The Grid computing architecture allows us to perform the same task in less than five working days using the power of hundreds of desktop PC's. High-throughput docking has therefore acquired the status of a routine screening technique."

"We get through a lot more data a lot more efficiently now."

"The distributed computing system will revolutionize not only how we do our work, but the accuracy of the decisions people make."

"The time it takes to develop a new treatment could be cut substantially with the Grid MP platform - perhaps even 3-5 years."

"Because of the [grid], researchers don't have to make such difficult trade-offs between computational time and precision…. As a company, we can innovate better, faster, and at a lower cost – and gain a competitive edge."

"Had we done this using traditional methods it would have taken years instead of less than four weeks."

"After moving those simulations to a grid that uses several hundred computing resources, processing time was cut to about two weeks."

"By combining VIP and DecisionSpace applications with grid computing technology, the cycle time for field development planning and reservoir performance prediction can be compressed from months or years, to days or week."

"Using grid technology, [Children's Memorial Research Center]... was able to reduce the time it took a text-mining application to run from more than 24 hours to just less than an hour and 20 minutes. ...[The hospital] expanded research capabilities and speeded results without adding significant cost, maintenance and IT burdens."

"No other single technology partner has accelerated our recent research as dramatically as Univa UD... Working with Univa UD has allowed us to think about our research on an entirely different scale."

"We're running between eight and 10,000 runs a day - an amount that was impossible before, without using our supercomputers."

"It would take us 60 of the 256-processor SGI Origin 2800's and 60 of the 64-processor Sun Enterprise 10000's to accomplish this project in a similar timeframe and it would cost 25 times as much."

"Ease of deployment and availability of applications were strong selling points for us. We also knew from Univa UD's other enterprise deployments that massive scaling and security capabilities were already proven."

"We realized a breakthrough in our internal processes... whilst improving productivity, quality of service, ease of use, and reducing scientific infrastructure costs by more than 20%."

"A flexible and scalable grid architecture that supports all of the heterogeneity and complexity inherent in legacy infrastructures was an absolute requirement."

"The simplicity and lightness of the solution enabled us to install it in one week, without having to stop our normal work. We were able to be ready on time and to meet the challenge of the Customer work we needed to undertake."

"Installation was trivial and bullet-proof and the ongoing maintenance and operation of the software is equally easy."

"Univa UD and its Grid MP technology provide a proven, reliable and secure platform for the World Community Grid."

"The platform performed flawlessly while coordinating over 12,000 compute nodes."

"As a result of our intense evaluation into the scalability, flexibility, security, and ease of deployment of the appropriate software, Sumisho has selected Grid MP platform as the most suitable solution."

"Our grid is a mixture of devices. Back-end servers, NPI devices – It's a way of taking a set of resources and treating them as if they were a cluster... The Univa UD tool gives us the ability to have all of these resources in the grid and through profiling and policy settings use them in different ways."

"We realized a breakthrough in our internal processes... whilst improving productivity, quality of service, ease of use, and reducing scientific infrastructure costs by more than 20%."

"The grid enabled us to run significantly more simulation than we could otherwise have done, which leads to a better understanding of system dynamics and more optimized system design."

"As a company, we can innovate better, faster, and at a lower cost – and gain a competitive edge."

"We have delivered good performance and proved grids are good for cost avoidance, but what I'm most proud of are comments from researchers who say we couldn't do the research we're doing today if the grid wasn't there."

"We are able to produce even higher quality results for our clients while passing on the cost savings this speed of production allows."

"In the end, J&J's grid should make drug discovery faster and more economical. It should also enhance patient safety and fine-tune therapeutics."

"We have instances of people running calculations they would probably not even contemplate without the grid – calculations involving several million molecules."

"The grid opens new possibilities in terms of the number of iterations of calculations available to us. Today we can launch a calculation according to as many scenarios as necessary, and therefore give our customers an optimal quality solution."

"We knew it would pay off in terms of server consolidation and reduced maintenance costs for SGI equipment, so we knew right away that we would achieve return on investments through that alone. But what we've also seen is certain types of application and scalability capabilities beyond what we could have ever purchased that's impacting on scientific processes. That's really where we see the major ROI over time."

"We are able to achieve a much greater chemical diversity in the hits we get, which will, in turn, enhance our likelihood of discovering novel lead compounds for optimization and drug development."

"The time it takes to develop a new treatment could be cut substantially with the Grid MP platform – perhaps even 3-5 years."

"The Grid computing architecture recently developed by Univa UD allows us to perform the same task in less than five working days using the power of hundreds of desktop PC's. High-throughput docking has therefore acquired the status of a routine screening technique."

"[Children's Memorial Research Center] expanded research capabilities and speeded results without adding significant cost, maintenance and IT burdens."

"The distributed computing system that Univa UD is setting up for us will revolutionize not only how we do our work, but the accuracy of the decisions people make."

"The grid has opened up a number of opportunities for us which were just not there before. People couldn't imagine doing the things that we are doing today on a routine basis."

"We've saved at least $2 million based on the 2700 seats we have currently."

"We knew it would pay off in terms of server consolidation and reduced maintenance costs for SGI equipment, so we knew right away that we would achieve return on investments through that alone. But what we've also seen is certain types of application and scalability capabilities beyond what we could have ever purchased that's impacting on scientific processes. That's really where we see the major ROI over time."

"We have delivered good performance and proved grids are good for cost avoidance, but what I'm most proud of are comments from researchers who say we couldn't do the research we're doing today if the grid wasn't there."

"The result of this for our business unit customers is reduced physical testing, which means lower development cost and faster time to market."

"In the end, J&J's grid should make drug discovery faster and more economical. It should also enhance patient safety and fine-tune therapeutics."

"We realized a breakthrough in our internal processes... whilst improving productivity, quality of service, ease of use, and reducing scientific infrastructure costs by more than 20%."

"We are able to produce even higher quality results for our clients while passing on the cost savings this speed of production allows."

"Instead of spending millions of dollars and years in the lab screening maybe hundreds of thousands of molecules, now it will be possible to screen hundreds of millions of molecules in months."

"As a company, we can innovate better, faster, and at a lower cost – and gain a competitive edge."

"If you look at dedicated clusters versus a more flexible [grid] environment where you can take advantage of both new acquisitions and existing systems through a single tool, it's just a better way to invest your money."

"[Children's Memorial Research Center] expanded research capabilities and speeded results without adding significant cost, maintenance and IT burdens."

"It would take us 60 of the 256-processor SGI Origin 2800's and 60 of the 64-processor Sun Enterprise 10000's to accomplish this project in a similar timeframe and it would cost 25 times as much."

"Intel said the software's security is 'robust end to end'. Barrett [CEO of Intel Corp.]said he was going to allow it to be run inside his company."

"A flexible and scalable grid architecture that supports all of the heterogeneity and complexity inherent in legacy infrastructures was an absolute requirement."

"We knew it would pay off in terms of server consolidation and reduced maintenance costs for SGI equipment, so we knew right away that we would achieve return on investments through that alone. But what we've also seen is certain types of application and scalability capabilities beyond what we could have ever purchased that's impacting on scientific processes. That's really where we see the major ROI over time."

"Ease of deployment and availability of applications were strong selling points for us. We also knew from Univa UD's other enterprise deployments that massive scaling and security capabilities were already proven."

"As a result of our intense evaluation into the scalability, flexibility, security, and ease of deployment of the appropriate software, Sumisho has selected Univa UD's Grid MP platform as the most suitable solution"

"Univa UD and its Grid MP technology provide a proven, reliable and secure platform for the World Community Grid."

"Univa UD has provided us with 6.5 Tflops of horsepower for our research. There is no way we would be able to afford the equipment to give us that power."

"Bring[ing] to our Researchers the best and most powerful of our infrastructures is and should remain our priority."

"Just by capturing unused cycles on the PCs we've already got, we've created a 5 teraflops super- computer... we've saved at least $2 million based on the 2700 seats we have currently."

"HPC Synergy-enablement of HP's XC clusters allows smooth integration of our powerful cluster systems into enterprises utilizing Grid MP™ platform or a range of other resource managers to optimize the use of resources across diverse and distributed environments. These enterprises can quickly expand their high performance capabilities with our XC systems and have a resource platform for their most difficult problems."

"With Univa UD, we were able to unload our higher-value resources. Everybody wins because our current solution is as good or better throughput, clearing our supercomputers for tasks that they're much more qualified to perform."

"It would take us 60 of the 256-processor SGI Origin 2800's and 60 of the 64-processor Sun Enterprise 10000's to accomplish this project in a similar timeframe and it would cost 25 times as much."

"The integration of Grid MP™ Cluster software with HP ProLiant servers offers Linux customers a robust and affordable means for achieving high performance computing."

"The grid is our single portal to all our analysis resources. It is used for all our analysis work."

"One of the things we did differently from other pharma companies was having the intention to develop a single grid globally, right from the start – one that could do both validated and non-validated computational work. We began with two separate grids. The European grid focused on early research and the US grid focused on the clinical space. Once they were both working, we merged the two grids together."

"A flexible and scalable grid architecture that supports all of the heterogeneity and complexity inherent in legacy infrastructures was an absolute requirement."

"The grid will be the motor driving our scientific IT system."

"We knew it would pay off in terms of server consolidation and reduced maintenance costs for SGI equipment, so we knew right away that we would achieve return on investments through that alone. But what we've also seen is certain types of application and scalability capabilities beyond what we could have ever purchased that's impacting on scientific processes. That's really where we see the major ROI over time."

"The result of this for our business unit customers is reduced physical testing, which means lower development cost and faster time to market."

"By going with the Univa UD tool, we can have a single tool that can both do a virtual cluster and also take advantage of CPU harvesting off the equipment we already have. That was one of the big reasons we picked the Univa UD tool over other ways of providing HPC capabilities."

"Bring[ing] to our Researchers the best and most powerful of our infrastructures is and should remain our priority."

"[Our grid] is a mixture of devices. Back-end servers, NPI devices - It's a way of taking a set of resources and treating them as if they were a cluster... The Univa UD tool gives us the ability to have all of these resources in the grid and through profiling and policy settings use them in different ways."

"The distributed computing system that Univa UD is setting up for us will revolutionize not only how we do our work, but the accuracy of the decisions people make."

"No other single technology partner has accelerated our recent research as dramatically as Univa UD... Working with Univa UD has allowed us to think about our research on an entirely different scale."

"If you look at dedicated clusters versus a more flexible [grid] environment where you can take advantage of both new acquisitions and existing systems through a single tool, it's just a better way to invest your money."

"With Univa UD, we were able to unload our higher-value resources. Everybody wins because our current solution is as good or better throughput, clearing our supercomputers for tasks that they're much more qualified to perform."