Grid Designer's Blog

Today we announced a new partnership with GridGain (see the press release here). I am extremely pleased to be launching this alliance and hope it will accelerate the already impressive adoption of GridGain's new and exciting open source Java platform for high-performance grid applications.

At Grid Dynamics we see GridGain as a simple, elegant, extensible, open-source, pure-Java platform that makes traditional high-performance computing and all modern map/reduce applications significantly simpler and cheaper to develop and deploy than it has ever been possible before. The platform's extensibility also allows GridGain to be used for a wider set of applications and enables the integration with other tools, systems and frameworks.

The partnership gives GridGain's customers an integrated Software + Service offering, enhancing GridGain's innovative technology with Grid Dynamics' expertise and track record in designing complex, scale-out applications. Customers are getting best-of-breed solutions from the industry leaders in their respective areas and should expect a seamless experience working across both organizations. Grid Dynamics and GridGain share the same core values, highly regarded by their mutual customers:

• Both are fundamentally engineering companies, nearly obsessed with the performance, scalability and quality of applications we write.
• Both recognize the importance of the Open Source as a medium for cost-effective and open software products with almost "organic" properties, which thrive and evolve in the marketplace under a watchful eye and the collective efforts of their designers and users.
• Both are cost-efficient, global-from-the-cradle organizations with significant R&D operations in Eastern Europe and headquarters in the Silicon Valley.

Under the terms of the relationship, Grid Dynamics is creating a "Center of Excellence" around the GridGain product and extending its design patterns for scalable high-performance applications to include mappings to GridGain technology. Both companies are collaborating on the joint R&D projects, including the planned release of a GridGain plug-in for Grid Dynamics' open source project Convergence, designed to enable interoperability between the leading compute and data grid platforms. Together, Grid Dynamics and GridGain simplify high-performance computing, lower the barrier of adoption of map/reduce paradigm for thousands of customers and ultimately enable a better scalability of a wide range of applications, networks and web sites.

I am personally looking forward to a lasting relationship between our companies that benefits GridGain users and the entire open source high-performance computing community.