Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,sci.geo.oceanography,comp.graphics.avs From: David Abramson Reply-To: davida@activetools.com Subject: Clustor 1.1 announcment Organization: Active Tools Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 14:46:15 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <33794397.35E3@activetools.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sergij Foski Active Tools, Inc. Phone: (415) 882-7062 Fax: (415) 680-2369 email: sergij.foski@activetools.com Active Tools Announces Clustor(tm) 1.1 for Exploiting the Combined Power of Networked Computers San Francisco, CA - May 12, 1997 -- Active Tools, Inc. today announced the release of Clustor 1.1, a software tool for distributing and managing computationally intensive tasks. "Clustor delivers computing power to users with ever increasing needs for more computing cycles." said Rok Sosic, President and CEO of Active Tools, Inc. "With Clustor, they can routinely combine the power of networked computers." Clustor greatly simplifies and speeds up parametric executions - running the same application numerous times with different input parameters. It generates jobs, speeds up the task by distributing the jobs over a network and collects the results. Jobs can be distributed over a local area network or over Internet. Version 1.1 of Clustor provides new features for load monitoring and resource sharing. Clustor is targeted at users, such as engineers, scientists and researchers. It provides an intuitive graphical user interface for all phases of executing jobs on a network of computers: from task preparation, job generation to job execution. Now, the combined power of networked computers can be exploited by users with no knowledge of programming parallel or distributed applications. Clustor is already being used in fields, such as VLSI circuit design, electronic design automation, bioinformatics, operations research, computer graphics, ecological and environmental modeling, laser and particle physics. According to Dr. Andrej Sali, Assistant Professor at Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Rockefeller University in New York "We found Clustor extremely helpful in squeezing more CPU time from our workstations, resulting in a highly increased job turnaround time and productivity." Clustor version 1.1 is currently available for major Unix environments such as Digital Unix, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics Irix, Sun Solaris and Linux. A version of Clustor for Windows NT environment will be released later this year. Clustor 1.1 for Unix is priced at $695. Additional computational nodes are $149. Clustor 1.1 for Linux is priced at $495 and $99, respectively. Academic discount of 40% is available to academic institutions for non-commercial use. Clustor can be purchased directly from Active Tools. Copies of Clustor and free 30-day evaluation licenses are available at http://www.activetools.com/. Active Tools, founded in 1995, is a developer of software tools for high performance computing. The founders have been developing software tools for more than 15 years in both industry and academia. Active Tools is a privately held company with offices in United States and Australia. Clustor and Clustor Node are trademarks of Active Tools, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.