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July 16, 2008

Grid.org Community Launches Major Site Upgrade

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New site offers autonomy, organic groups, transparent support for users of open source cluster software

LISLE, Ill., July 16 -- Grid.org, the open source community for cluster and grid users, administrators and developers, unveiled its new Web site today at www.grid.org.

With an interface and usability overhaul, as well as innovative new functionality resulting in greater user autonomy, Grid.org has reinvented not only its appearance but also its underlying architecture.

"The new Grid.org site is light years beyond its original version," said Bill Bryce, director of HPC products at Univa UD, Grid.org's founding sponsor. "Grid.org is doing things no other community site is doing, like providing transparent access to support and allowing users to create their own organic groups and own the content they create."

"I'm excited to be able to moderate a group for HPC users interested in EC2," said Chris Dagdigian, co-founder & principal consultant at The BioTeam Inc., a top consultancy for Life Sciences IT. "It's really an interesting approach to online communities -- I own all the content I create, and Grid.org makes it easy to cross-publish this anywhere I want."

Grid.org is an open source community where cluster and grid users, developers, and administrators come to connect and communicate, exchange information and ideas, and participate in development projects. Home to the UniCluster open source project as well as other open source projects and communities, the Grid.org mission is to provide an all-inclusive destination for people with similar cluster and grid interests.

"This new site should make it much easier for our users to not only find the information they need related to cluster management, but also to use this information effectively," said Gregory Shirin, OEM business development executive at Sun Microsystems, Grid Engine Group. "Grid Engine community members will benefit from having access to a site like Grid.org, which brings together HPC leaders from various subject areas to work on development projects important to Grid Engine users."

"Anyone using a cluster to run HPC applications should take notice of this community," said Scott McDonald, president and founder of Grid Gateway, a leading grid computing services and reseller company. "The degree to which members have autonomy, as well as the support transparency and ability to get involved in important projects, is nearly unprecedented."

The site sponsor, Univa UD, unveiled the original Grid.org site in November 2007 at the Supercomputing '07 (SC07) conference. To join the community, visit www.grid.org.

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