Advantages and Benefits

Unlike conventional distributed approaches, Zircon software is easy to use, easy to install and does not require costly new hardware, reprogramming, or consulting engagements. Zircon's patent-pending adaptive distributed computing technology disseminates processing tasks across PCs and servers, balancing the workload to take full advantage of available resources. The ability to zEnable any machine in seconds brings parallel computing power to many different environments, from individual machines running a multi-core processor to small workgroups with a dozen laptops and desktops to enterprise networks with hundreds of servers.

By delivering supercomputer performance on demand, Zircon software allows users to adopt new forms of analysis previously out of reach. For the financial analyst, it could mean the ability to run complex forecasting algorithms before the market can adjust. For the chief security officer, it could mean the ability to correlate data from numerous sources in real time to detect and deter potential threats. For every user, it means the opportunity to weigh more variables, consider more options and make more-informed decisions.

Key Advantages of Zircon Software include

• Immediate impact: Zircon software installs in minutes and can be used with equal ease over a local network, remotely over the Internet, and/or in a dedicated data center. With minimal learning curve and configuration effort, Zircon's technology delivers dramatic performance improvements immediately.
• Dynamic load balancing: Zircon software balances the workload efficiently across all available computing resources, maximizing performance and ensuring that all available resources are fully engaged.
• Sub-millisecond latency: Zircon software accelerates the full range of parallel applications, including those with massive volumes of very brief (millisecond-range) computations where the communications overhead is significant compared to computation time. Zircon software can accelerate user-defined functions or object methods that take as little as 0.5 ms to run locally.
• Persistent and recoverable: Zircon software executes all requested calculations, even in the event of hardware or network failure. Requests for missed replies are resubmitted to available zEngines, and defective zEngines are automatically removed from the distribution list.
• Real-time control: The administrator console monitors all available compute engines in real time, shows their current load and throughput, and allows remote stop/suspend/resume operations.
• Platform-independent: Zircon software runs in mixed environments of different platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Solaris, with complete and automated interoperability between all of them.
• Transparent and anonymous: Zircon software relies only on opaque binary versions of client code, with no exposure to sensitive business logic or data.

With simple drop-in installation, sub-millisecond latency, automatic discovery and optimization of network resources, Zircon has no rivals in distributed and parallel computing.