Browser-Based Extreme-Scale Computing Across All Major Platforms
Whether applied to modeling and simulation, optimization or other complex algorithms, the scalability and price-performance advantages made possible with Frontier enable users to accelerate the throughput of existing applications or perform groundbreaking calculations at a depth heretofore not considered possible.
Frontier 4 Features
- Frontier Dashboard: A rich and intuitive browser-based portal, built with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Ext JS components, that provides a unified interface for account management and job monitoring.
- Frontier App Store: Allows developers to create Grid Software-as-a-Service (GSaaS) "storefronts" through which grid applications and services can be published, discovered and used.
- Frontier Compute Engine: Provides a consistent browser interface across all major operating systems, including Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
- Frontier Enterprise Edition: All components ship as VMware virtual appliances (".ovf" files) for easy import into ESX 3, the market leading hypervisor for virtualized data centers.
- Frontier JumpStart: Provides an Application Generator that enables developers to create and deploy sample Frontier Dashboard applications in minutes.
