eXludus' Grid Optimizer Software Delivers up to 90% Increase in System Performance: eXludus Technologies today announced a reseller relationship with SGI. SGI will embed eXludus Grid Optimizer software in its new BioCluster solution, developed specifically for the life sciences market. Current generation processors are rapidly evolving from single-core to multi-core products and standard server offerings may have 16, or more, processing cores. As a consequence of this evolution, new solutions are required to optimize utilization of these processing resources. The eXludus Optimizer suite has been developed specifically for this purpose. "The SGI BioCluster, based on the SGI Altix XE platform and including eXludus Grid Optimizer software, is an ideal solution for pharmaceutical, biotech and university researchers seeking a turn-key cluster that will accelerate their genomics and proteomics work, and easily integrate into their existing infrastructure," said Deepak Thakkar, Ph.D., BioSciences Segment Manager, SGI. "Through testing conducted on a 64 processor configuration, it was observed that Grid Optimizer provided up to 90 percent performance gains on key life sciences applications, which allows SGI to deliver a system to our customers that will enable faster time to insight and discovery," Dr. Thakkar added. "Our Grid Optimizer solution has been designed to fully utilize the processing capacity of current generation servers, a growing industry challenge as the number of cores per system rapidly increases," said Benoit Marchand, Founder and CEO of eXludus. "With the ongoing need to reduce energy consumption and expense, and manage limited data center space through server consolidation, it is important to ensure that the processing power of each system, and the energy that system consumes, is optimized for maximum efficiency. By virtualizing individual processing cores and managing resource allocation within the system, Grid Optimizer greatly increases system productivity, as evidenced by the tremendous performance gains we have demonstrated on the scalable SGI Altix XE architecture running various life sciences applications," Mr. Marchand concluded.