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United Devices, the market leader in secure grid solutions, announced it is in the process of linking 500 computers at the University of Florida to create a computational grid for powering a wide range of projects. The United Devices Grid MP platform will allow the University to increase the power of its core resources without having to invest in additional hardware. "Grid technologies have matured to a level where they can be widely deployed," said Fedro Zazueta, Director of Academic Technology at the University of Florida. "These technologies promise to transform some of the ways in which we use computing resources. They are increasingly driving collaboration that enables academics with high-powered tools and resources, such as distributed computing, large-scale data analysis, computer-in-the-loop instrumentation and collaborative work platforms." Zazueta explains that in academic enterprises, estimates indicate that 70% to 90% of the total installed capacity of desktop computers is unused at any given time. High-speed computers and networks at the University of Florida can now come together to form a large computational resource. Deploying a grid across 500 teaching computer laboratories will generate a computing capacity of well over 2 Teraflops. The institution intends to deploy such an infrastructure using United Devices' Grid MP technology and will make this resource available to University faculty and students who require computational resources at that level. "The University of Florida is a leader in using grid computing to supplement its existing resources," said Ed Hubbard, CEO of United Devices. "This move vastly increases their available power, frees up existing resources for other uses and creates new possibilities for their proprietary applications and research." Grid MP Enterprise from United Devices is the leading grid solution for on-site institutional deployments. By collectively harnessing the latent power of existing clusters, servers, desktops, and workstations, organizations maximize the value of resources they already own while gaining compute power to accelerate and refine their research and analysis. The software aggregates heterogeneous resources into a virtual processing network capable of increasing processing power (and decreasing processing time) exponentially. According to representatives at the University, there are several possibilities for further utilizing the grid including teaching current professors and staff to grid-enable their existing proprietary applications. United Devices is the market leader in secure grid solutions. The company's Grid MP(tm) platform is used to aggregate compute resources on a network to create workstation, cluster and data center grids capable of running a wide range of high-performance computing applications in life sciences, geosciences, manufacturing, financial services, chemical engineering and other industries. The company's solutions are available in both enterprise and on-demand deployments. United Devices also operates the world's largest Grid for grand-scale research that consists of more than 2.5 million devices in over 220 countries. For more information on secure grid solutions, visit the United Devices Web site www.ud.com. To volunteer your idle compute power, visit www.grid.org.