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SAN DIEGO, CA -- Entropia, Inc., the leading provider of PC grid computing solutions, announced immediate availability of DCGrid 5.0, a powerful and cost-effective PC grid computing platform that provides high performance computing capabilities by aggregating the unused processing cycles of networks of existing Windows-based PCs. DCGrid 5.0’s open platform architecture enables easy and rapid integration of business critical applications without accessing or modifying application source code, and its comprehensive security features ensure guaranteed and unobtrusive performance. “No matter which way you slice it, the business case for grid computing is quite clear. The challenge lies in making the grid-enablement process at enterprises seamless,” said Ahmar Abbas, managing director at Grid Technology Partners. “DCGrid 5.0 provides a rich set of application integration capabilities and operational intelligence tools that not only make grid deployments straightforward but also make them easy to monitor and manage once in production.” DCGrid 5.0 includes key advances in platform design, security, and resource, utility, and job management: • Unique open platform: DCGrid delivers fast, easy application integration across the broadest range of computing applications. • Binary level integration: This core technology allows any native 32 bit Windows application to be integrated without modifying application source code. This means whether an application is open source, third party, or proprietary, it can be run on DCGrid. Applications can be integrated rapidly and cost-effectively. • Vendor independence: Users are not dependent on vendors to provide pre-enabled applications or to have access to the source code to integrate applications. New releases of an application will work easily without any additional customization or modification of the grid. • Secure, multi-dimensional protection: DCGrid’s unique, patent-pending isolation technology provides full and unobtrusive protection for the grid as well as the underlying resources. • Protects integrity of desktop machines: DCGrid protects the desktop configuration, programs, and data from corruption by grid application errors as well as the privacy of desktop users from snooping. The grid application cannot accidentally or intentionally access or modify the PC configuration or data files. Unlike other error-prone approaches, DCGrid presents a cleanly isolated, corruption-free environment. • Protects integrity of grid applications and proprietary data: DCGrid shields applications, proprietary data and resources distributed to the desktop PCs by using encryption and tamper detection. Proprietary data and research sent out to hundreds of PCs in an enterprise will be protected from desktop user inspection or malicious corruption. • Protects PC responsiveness and maintains unobtrusiveness: DCGrid automatically monitors and limits grid work so it does not intrude on the PC user. Unlike other solutions, DCGrid remains invisible at all times, never demanding inputs or responses from the desktop user, and never impacting the user’s performance. • Web-based job management: DCGrid provides a Web-based, user-friendly interface to efficiently manage multiple applications, jobs and datasets. Configurable wizards assist in establishing job workflow—including data set preparation, application selection, parameter setting, grid resource selection and post-run processing. With DCGrid, users gain maximum flexibility in establishing production-quality workflow, but still have the capability to submit ad hoc jobs for unique situations. Users benefit by eliminating mundane, manual work, reducing potential for errors, and being able to focus more time on analysis of results. • Complete centralized IT management: DCGrid provides a centralized, browser-based, remotely controllable administration interface, allowing complete control of grid resources, usage, and security to optimize performance. This interface allows IT to manage priorities according to business policy, including control of users, application, mission-critical projects, client grouping, and time of day. “Enterprises want to enable both in-house proprietary applications as well as third-party applications for PC grid computing without disclosing source code or requiring integration services from external vendors. They also want to be certain that a misbehaving application or a misbehaving user cannot compromise the enterprise network, nor the mission-critical work being performed throughout the PC grid,” said Bill Philbin, senior vice president, product development, Entropia. “DCGrid has the strongest application integration and security when compared with any other PC grid computing technology. Our unique, patent-pending isolation technology, combined with an application independent platform and binary level integration, provides the greatest usability, fastest implementation and easiest operation of any available PC grid solution.”