Evergrid(R) Teams With Livermore Software Technology Corp. to Provide High Availability...

Evergrid(R) Teams With Livermore Software Technology Corp. to Provide High Availability Solution

Evergrid's Availability Services(TM) Software Integrates With
LS-DYNA(R) for Seamless Checkpoint/Resume Capabilities
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Evergrid and Livermore Software Technology Corp. (LSTC) today
announced a transparent checkpoint/resume solution for LSTC's flagship
LS-DYNA application. With the integration, Evergrid Availability
Services (AvS) enables LS-DYNA customers to protect valuable compute
cycles and time against unplanned application and system downtime.

With the combination of Evergrid AvS and LS-DYNA, customers can
checkpoint a running job at any time during execution without stopping
or pausing the job. The job can also be preempted for a higher
priority project, freeing up system resources, such as CPU, memory and
the LS-DYNA license. After a system failure or completion of the
higher priority project, the job can be restarted seamlessly from the
last checkpoint without wasting valuable compute cycles. "With
Evergrid AvS, LS-DYNA customers can ensure that they can meet their
projects' deadlines even with unexpected system failures or other
interruptions," said Dr. Wayne Mindle of LSTC.

LSTC's popular LS-DYNA is a flexible, general purpose, transient
dynamic, finite element analysis program. Engineers employ LS-DYNA to
simulate a wide range of complex real-world problems that involve
time-dependent, nonlinear events.

Evergrid's AvS software provides checkpoint/resume capabilities
for parallel and serial applications. Organizations can integrate AvS
with their existing resource management product to ensure critical
applications always run to completion. AvS provides a non-blocking
checkpoint capability for a running LS-DYNA job. Customers do not need
to make any modifications to the OS or LS-DYNA and AvS is compatible
with LSTC's own licensing solution. "We are very excited to partner
with LSTC to deliver a high availability solution for LS-DYNA, helping
our customers meet their service level agreements (SLAs)," said Fred
Van Den Bosch, CEO of Evergrid.

About Evergrid

Evergrid is a global leader in workload management and application
availability software. Evergrid has developed unique technology for
managing application execution and resource consumption, to enable
data centers to combine optimal resource utilization with highest
application quality of service. Evergrid's products provide
fine-grained and accurate workload management and profiling, resource
scheduling, and application-transparent high availability for Grid and
data center environments. Founded in 2004, Evergrid is based in Santa
Clara, California. For more information, visit http://evergrid.com or
call 1-866-922-GRID.

About Livermore Software Technology Corp.

Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Livermore, California, LSTC
develops and markets the LS-DYNA general-purpose transient dynamic
finite element program and a suite of related and supporting software
products used in automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, defense,
bioengineering and other industries. Engineers employ LS-DYNA to
simulate a variety of complex real-world problems that involve
time-dependent, nonlinear events.

(C) 2008 Evergrid, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Evergrid, the
Evergrid logo and Availability Services are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Evergrid, Inc. LS-DYNA is a registered trademark of
Livermore Software Technology Corporation. All other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.

Evergrid, Inc.
Ameet Dhillon, 408-588-1716
adhillon@evergrid.com
or
Livermore Software Technology Corp.
Marsha Victory, 925-245-4550
marsha@lstc.com

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