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San Diego – Entropia, Inc., the leading provider of PC grid computing solutions, today announced a strategic development collaboration with BAE SYSTEMS, a leading systems and aerospace company. This relationship combines BAE SYSTEMS’ global expertise in engineering and mechanical design with Entropia’s technological leadership in PC grid computing to further the goal of unifying BAE SYSTEMS’ compute resources under a grid architecture umbrella. Entropia’s DCGrid, a powerful and cost-effective PC grid computing platform that provides high performance computing capabilities by harnessing the unused processing cycles of networks of existing Windows-based PCs, will be integrated within the infrastructure at BAE SYSTEMS. BAE SYSTEMS intends to use their PC grid as a research platform for their existing proprietary and third party applications. Additional capabilities that will allow for embedding DCGrid within their proprietary applications will be jointly developed during this collaboration. “We’ve employed grid methodologies for a while now but the addition of the Entropia technology provides a professionally engineered solution that was built for the desktop. DCGrid’s open architecture facilitates interoperation, using OGSA and Globus Toolkit 3.0, with our existing capabilities. Further, DCGrid’s application integration model will allow us to jointly develop capabilities specific to the engineering and mechanical design sector,” said Alan Gould, grid project leader, BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre. “BAE SYSTEMS’ diverse application requirements make them an ideal partner to further enhance the capabilities of Entropia’s product family for the engineering market sector,” commented John Wark, president & CEO of Entropia. “Given our mutually strategic objectives, BAE SYSTEMS will benefit directly from a dedicated software development effort, while DCGrid is stress tested under real world production conditions in the engineering arena.”