Fitech Laboratories Inc. announced the creation of the Fitech Laboratories University Relationship Program. The program is designed to facilitate research projects that can benefit from the computing power of using a computational grid and is now accepting applications from Universities worldwide. In order to qualify prospective research projects should meet the following two criteria: -- The proposed project must either directly concern research in distributed computing, or must possess significant computational requirements that are suited to running on a computational grid. -- At the conclusion of the research project the results should be published, with acknowledgement of xTier/GRID and Fitech Laboratories' participation Fitech Laboratories will supply qualified projects with a number of free academic licenses of xTier/GRID and in certain cases, Fitech Laboratories will provide additional project support by providing xTier/GRID training and consulting. Fitech Laboratories can also help qualified projects to obtain financial assistance from participating non-profit funds. For further program information please see: http://www.fitechlabs.com/academic_research.jsp. All inquiries regarding the University Relationship Program should be directed to: Jon Webster, Technical Director, Fitech Laboratories Inc. via email: jwebster@fitechlabs.com, or via telephone: 646-495-5076 xTier/GRID The xTier/GRID provides a simple yet robust implementation for Enterprise Computational Grid (ECG) applications and defines the software infrastructure for developing Near Real Time (nRT) ECG applications. xTier/GRID is best suited to solving computationally intensive tasks by splitting such tasks into multiple sub-tasks, executing each sub-task on a dedicated grid node in parallel and then aggregating the results to achieve a final result. The main features of the xTier/GRID service include: -- Designed to solve enterprise computationally intensive problems. -- Near Real-Time (nRT) support additionally to traditional long-running jobs. -- Direct support for task splitting, topology management, result aggregation and failover. Background:
Fitech Laboratories, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced software components and middleware technologies. By combining industry standards, service-oriented development expertise and the latest technologies, Fitech Laboratories, Inc. enables organizations to drastically reduce development time and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), while benefiting from a highly extensible, fast and reliable software infrastructure.