Univa

Univa Corporation

Type	Private
Industry	Cloud computing, Distributed computing, Grid computing, Computer software
Founded	Lisle, Illinois (2004)
Headquarters	Chicago - Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Products	Univa Grid Engine, UniCloud, UniSight, License Orchestrator, Universal Resource Broker, Univa Short Jobs
Website	www.univa.com

Univa is a privately held software company that sells data center optimization software products.

Products

Within its portfolio Univa develops, sells and supports Univa Grid Engine software, Univa's version of the popular workload and distributed resource management technology Grid Engine. Univa had announced in Jan 2011 that it has hired the key personnel formerly working for Oracle and Sun Microsystems on Grid Engine development.^[1]

On Oct 22, 2013 Univa also has announced that it has acquired the intellectual property as well the copyrights and trademarks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology from Oracle and that it will take over supporting Oracle Grid Engine customers.^[2]

Univa provides add-on products, solutions and technologies to Univa Grid Engine, such as

• UniCloud^[3] — Dynamically optimizes resource utilization by ensuring applications are matched to the optimal data center resources. A feature of UniCloud extends internal computing environments (e.g. a Univa Grid Engine cluster) into an external (or "public") cloud service such as Amazon EC2.
• License Orchestrator^[4] — A manager for the allocation of licensed applications and application features shared across Univa Grid Engine clusters.
• Univa Grid Engine for Hadoop^[5] — Integrates the popular Big Data technology Hadoop into Univa Grid Engine and thereby allows multi-tenant Hadoop applications to run concurrently without conflict and under policy and accounting control as well sharing the cluster resource across Hadoop and non-Hadoop workloads.
• UniSight^[6] — An analytics tool that allows organizations to measure, track and chargeback usage on dynamic and shared clusters.
• Universal Resource Broker^[7] — Create a dynamically shared compute pool out of distributed resources by hosting popular Big Data frameworks and data center services on top of clusters.
• Univa Short Jobs^[8] — A framework to run massive quantities of tasks in microseconds and with near-zero overhead to Univa Grid Engine.

Consulting services

Univa offers consulting services for installation, tuning and configuration of its products.

History

Univa was founded in 2004 under the name Univa Corporation by Carl Kesselman, Ian Foster, and Steve Tuecke and was at that time primarily known for providing open source products and technical support based around the Globus Toolkit.

On September 17, 2007, the company announced that it would merge with the Austin, Texas-based United Devices and operate under the new name Univa UD.^[9]

The company operated as Univa UD until formally dropping "UD" and returning to common use of Univa Corporation. Under the leadership of its current CEO Gary Tyreman^[10] Univa announced, January 17, 2011, that it had hired the principal and founding engineers of the Grid Engine team.^[11]

On Oct 22, 2013 Univa has announced that it had acquired the intellectual property as well the copyrights and trademaks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology from Oracle and that it will take over supporting Oracle Grid Engine customers.^[12]

A new technical partnership with Force India, providing automation data management software for large scale computational projects.

See also

• Computational grid
• CPU scavenging
• Job schedulers

References

1. "Univa Acquires Grid Engine Expertise". Jan 17, 2011.
2. "Univa Completes Acquisition of Grid Engine Assets, Becoming the Sole Commercial Provider of Grid Engine Software". Oct 22, 2013.
3. "About UniCloud".
4. "License Orchestrator".
5. "Big Data Solutions".
6. "About UniSight".
7. "Universal Resource Broker".
8. "Short Jobs".
9. Shread, Paul (September 19, 2007). "United Devices, Univa to Merge". Enterprise IT Planet.
10. "Roadmap Chat with Univa’s New CEO, Gary Tyreman". July 8, 2010.
11. "Univa Acquires Grid Engine Expertise". Jan 17, 2011.
12. "Univa Completes Acquisition of Grid Engine Assets, Becoming the Sole Commercial Provider of Grid Engine Software". Oct 22, 2013.

External links

• Official website
• New Version of Univa Grid Engine Significantly Increases Efficiency of Clusters. July 14, 2015
• Univa Sets Sight on $69.9 Billion Financial Services Market. June 18, 2015
• Univa Corporation and CPU 24/7 Partners to Provide Integrated Solution. June 23, 2014
• Univa Corporation Provides Integrated Technology Solution for Oil & Gas Industry. June 19, 2014
• Univa becomes technical partner of Sahara Force India Formula One™ Team. June 4, 2014
• Univa Corporation Named Top Vendor to Watch in 2013 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. November 18, 2013
• Univa Corporation and Penguin Computing Announce Reseller Agreement. November 17, 2013