Clustor 1.5 Opens Up to Banks
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Active Tools, producer of Clustor, a software tool that transforms PCs into supercomputers, has announced an upgrade with exciting new features for banks and the finance industry.
Clustor has been acclaimed as an enormously cost effective product that puts PCs to work at night when they would normally be idle. This enables companies to achieve supercomputer capabilities without having to make expensive purchases or reprogram their applications.
"Now, the new features in Clustor 1.5 enhance security and simplify both maintenance and diagnostics as well as improve interoperability between Windows NT and Unix platforms," said Dr Rok Sosic, President and CEO of Active Tools Inc.
He said the new release would dramatically widen the scope for Clustor to be used in banks and other financial institutions because users could now integrate their own security methods.
"Another important benefit is that the new release significantly lowers maintenance and operational costs of using Clustor on Windows NT," he said.
Dr. Sosic said that the use of multiple processors to speed up time consuming applications was becoming widespread.
With Clustor, user applications could be executed over multiple computers in an easy and intuitive way.
"This results in great advantages to users requiring high computing power ranging over banks and the whole spectrum of the finance industry; the Human Genome Project; electronics; environmental modelling, scientific research, and so forth."
Clustor can run applications over networks, ranging in size from one to several hundred computers.
"In one example, using 20 computers, a task which would have taken one computer over four months was completed in only a week. In another example as many as 200 workstations were used with Clustor, producing combined power 100 times larger than the power of the fastest unit", Dr. Sosic said.
Clustor version 1.5 is available now for Windows NT and major Unix platforms. Prices start at $1,995 for a basic bundle. Academic discounts are available to academic institutions for non-commercial use. Clustor can be purchased directly from Active Tools. Free evaluation licences are available at http://www.activetools.com.
Active Tools develops software tools for high performance computing.