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Univa announced UniCluster 5.0 this week -- it's a major new version that provides the underpinnings of Univa's cloud computing solutions.

UniCluster 5.0 features include:

Univa Announces Integration With OpenSolaris Operating System
 

Oracle/Univa UD Private Cloud Solution at DAC 2009
Oracle will join Univa UD in booth #610 at this year's Design Automation Conference (DAC) in
San Francisco July 26-31. The 'Private HPC Cloud' solution featured in the Univa-Oracle booth
includes Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle VM, and Univa's innovative systems management tool.
This solution closes the loop between job placement, provisioning and policy management—
substantially increasing the flexibility of large throughput computing environments. Be sure to stop

Article in Chicago Sun-Times talks about "Growing the Grid":

http://www.suntimes.com/business/spirrison/1408544,CST-FIN-spirr02.article 

http://www.hpcwire.com/blogs/Decoupling-HPC-From-the-Datacenter-35576624...

The democratization of HPC is unlikely to happen if every company and institution is forced to build and maintain multi-million dollar datacenters to house supercomputers. Power, cooling and space constraints as well as a shortage of system administration expertise will limit the spread of HPC datacenters.
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Well if you haven't already checked it out please go ahead and have a look on http://groups.grid.org/content/unicluster for the UniCluster 4.0 Test Drive.

UniCluster 4.0 is a big change from our previous releases of UniCluster.  We went back to the drawing board and 'put our heads together' to figure out 'what is needed for a medium sized HPC cluster?'.  UniCluster 4.0 creates the whole cluster all you need is the hardware and CentOS 5 or Oracle Enterprise Linux (the software works on RHEL as well but we didn't focus on that for the Test Drive.)

4.0 is out and available for download.  It is a "preview" release.  "preview" meaning "beta".  It has a ton of additional features that UniCluster 3.2 did not.  Specifically, a provisioning system, build-in MPI/SGE tight integration support, IPMI, Cacti, Xen and more.

UniCluster Open Source Software proves to be a Superior Alternative for HPC Users

Lisle IL, August 12, 2008 - Grid.org, the online community for open-source cluster and grid software, announced today that their open source cluster software stack, UniCluster, has exceeded 5,000 downloads by the HPC community.

New Case Study: Top Pharma Picks UniCluster
Replaces Costly Commercial Scheduler

Find out how a leading Pharma switched from their legacy scheduler to a UniCluster environment – and saved 80% on cluster costs.

Download paper at: http://univaud.com/hpc/cs-top-pharma-picks-unicluster.php

Partnership Brings Together HPC Leaders, Extends Solution Range and Support for Customers

LISLE, IL, July 9, 2008 — Univa UD, a pioneer in
HPC systems management products for the complete distributed computing
lifecycle and Grid Gateway, a leading grid computing services and
reseller company, today announced their partnership whereby Grid
Gateway will market and sell Univa UD's UniCluster product suite and