United Devices, Inc. was a privately held, commercial distributed computing company that focused on the use of grid computing
to manage HPC infrastructures and enterprise cluster management. Its products and services allowed users to "allocate workloads
to computers and devices throughout enterprises, aggregating computing power that would normally go unused. " It now operates
under the name Univa UD, after merging with Univa on September 17, 2007.
Univa UD is a privately held software company that is primarily known for providing open source products and technical support
based around the Globus Toolkit. It was founded in 2004 under the name Univa Corporation by the Globus Alliance participants
Carl Kesselman, Ian Foster, and Steve Tuecke. 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.
Platform Computing is a privately held software company that is primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing
Facility (LSF). It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is currently headquartered in Markham, Ontario with
several local offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.
