Friday 10 September 2010
eXludus Technologies, the leading developer of multi-core system capacity management, virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced that it will be part of a team of electronic design automation (EDA) and cloud computing experts to offer a free workshop during the Design Automation Conference 2009 (DAC09) in San Francisco. eXludus will co-host this workshop with Sun Microsystems and UnivaUD - the fourth in a series of similar events that have taken place in Tokyo, Japan, Austin, Texas and Santa Clara, California.
This workshop will provide: Expert training and best practices for high performance computing (HPC) cluster users; valuable tools and knowledge on improving EDA application performance by optimizing multi-core system throughput, enhancing cluster management and improving cluster scheduler cost-efficiency; and, will also include a detailed discussion on the benefits of core optimization, the differences between available cluster schedulers, how to manage scheduler migration and how to best leverage private and public cloud computing.
Xludus is the leading developer of multi-core system resource management, virtualization and provisioning solutions for data center, cluster and grid deployments. eXludus’ innovative ‘coreware’ - software products that virtualize and manage processing cores - optimizes system productivity allowing more work to be completed in less time at lower cost. eXludus solutions complement existing infrastructure so customers can instantly benefit from productivity gains without need for application modifications, lengthy deployment cycles or long learning curves. eXludus has sales offices and partnerships worldwide.
While there is still time to talk about the benefits the company will be able to reap from cloud computing, Yashraj Vakil, its chief operating officer, said that he was thinking on the lines of cost efficiency in terms of load-shedding and maintenance while taking the decision. We have been on the Cloud since we started operating in December 2008. The technology is good for a new launch, and we are happy with its ‘pay as you wish’ subscription. We can focus on our core, which is managing traffic and learning where people are coming from.
Dream11.com, however, is taking a reverse pattern. Where established players who have a huge legacy are migrating on to virtualization and cloud computing technologies, Vakil, in an interaction with CXOtoday, said, “I am trying to gauge the market. We want to have a server farm of our own. But that is a distant dream as of now. Let me first make my millions. So who hosts the company s website and servers? “GoGrid is our service provider. We have registered 1 million uniques and 5 million page views in the two months that we have gone live.
So is it all smooth sailing on the clouds? No, said Anil Singh, general manager IT at Dream11. And why did Dream11 chose GoGrid a relatively unheard-of company? Said Singh, “Among the top five or top ten, they offer the cloud only on an open source platform. Our IT architecture is on proprietary system.” Vakil said that all employees at Dream11 use the .Net platform since it is easy to use. “But we are wondering whether to move to open source, or use dual processes. That will depend on the legacy. For now the space is open, and we want to grow in the market.
