rPath wins DOE grant

Good Morning,

rPath is pleased to announce that it is a recipient of a $100,000 Small
Business Innovation Research grant from the Department of Energy (DOE).
rPath will use the grant to enable its rBuilder platform to create Xen
virtual machine images for deployment in grid environments such as the Open
Science Grid <http://www.opensciencegrid.org/index.php> .

 

Large scale grid computing platforms are needed for scientific research, but
it is difficult to match available grid capacity with applications because
each of the National Laboratory grids is unique in its operating system
configuration. rPath's virtual appliance technology solves this problem by
combining applications with their operating environments in virtual
containers which can be run on any available grid.

 

The full release is available below for your review - please let me know if
you have any questions or would like to speak with rPath officials.

 

Many thanks,

Kristin W. Bear

Crossroads Public Relations for rPath

(919) 784-0445 - office

(919) 349-1856 - mobile

kbear@crossroadspr.com

www.rpath.com <http://www.rpath.com/> 

 


rPath Wins Department of Energy Grant to Manage Application Delivery for
Grid Computing 


Project will use rBuilder to create and deliver Xen virtual application
environments for the National Laboratory Grid


RALEIGH, NC (May 23, 2006) - rPath, provider of the first platform for
creating and maintaining Linux software appliances, today announced it has
been notified by Congressman Brad Miller's office that it is a recipient of
a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Department of
Energy (DOE). rPath will use the grant to enable its rBuilder platform to
create Xen virtual machine images for deployment in grid environments such
as the Open Science Grid <http://www.opensciencegrid.org/index.php> .

 

Large scale grid computing platforms are needed for scientific research, but
it is difficult to match available grid capacity with applications because
each of the National Laboratory grids is unique in its operating system
configuration. rPath's virtual appliance technology solves this problem by
combining applications with their operating environments in virtual
containers which can be run on any available grid.

According to DOE personnel who reviewed rPath's proposal, the technology
"could represent a breakthrough" in the packaging, delivery and maintenance
of distributed computing environments.  DOE reviewers went on to say that
rPath's proposal is backed by "highly skilled people from diverse
backgrounds whose combined knowledge should produce a significant advance."

 

"rPath is excited to be working towards universal application deployment on
grids with the Department of Energy," said Erik Troan, rPath founder and
CTO. "Together we will show how rPath's virtual appliance technology
increases the utilization of grids by making those resources readily
available to a wide array of applications."

 

About Xen <http://www.xensource.com/> 
Xen is the industry-standard open source infrastructure virtualization
software created and maintained by the founders of XenSource, Inc., and
developed collaboratively by 20 of the world's most innovative data center
solution vendors. Xen allows multiple virtual server instances to run
concurrently on the same physical server, with near-native performance and
per-virtual server performance guarantees. Xen is designed to exploit
hardware virtualization capabilities in the latest Intel and AMD processors
to offer the highest performance for all virtualized guest operating
systems.

 

About rPath 

rPath provides rBuilder and rPath Linux, the first platform for creating and
maintaining software appliances. Using rPath's technology, application
developers can evolve their business from delivering an application to
providing a complete solution via software appliances. For customers,
software appliances bring the simplicity and value of Software as a Service
(SaaS) to on-premise application deployments. The company is headquartered
in Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information, please visit:
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