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September 17, 2007
Digipede: 2.0 and Beyond
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Digipede president and CEO John Powers took some time to answer our questions about Digipede Network v.2.0 -- which sees improvements around developer-friendliness, latency and interoperability with Microsoft products -- and how it will set up the company for future growth.
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GRIDtoday: What are the key improvements with Digipede Network 2.0? What will users notice first and foremost?
JOHN POWERS: The improvements in 2.0 all reinforce our three key value propositions – application performance, simplicity, and focus on the Microsoft platform.
In terms of performance, users will see improved throughput thanks to more flexible ways to make use of multi-core and multi-CPU machines. We’ve also reduced latency throughout the system, which will be noticeable in certain types of applications.
In terms of simplicity, we’ve improved the user interface for Digipede Control, allowing administrators to manipulate larger numbers of Digipede Agents easily. As the size of our customer installations continues to increase, the ability to manage more Agents, resource pools, users, and applications from a simple UI is critical. We’ve also added some functionality to provide information even when you’re away from Digipede Control, such as email notification of various events (exceptions, job completion, and so on).
In terms of Microsoft focus, we’ve continued to stress simplicity and security by leveraging the huge investments Microsoft has made in the past few years. The Digipede Network 2.0 uses Windows Authentication and Active Directory, so Digipede users can use their Windows credentials instead of creating Digipede logins and passwords. We’ve also included a Visual Studio 2005 Package that greatly simplifies debugging distributed applications from the same tools developers already use.
Gt: You mentioned over the summer
that v. 2.0 will be even more developer-friendly and will improve on latency
manageability. Now that the product has been announced, can you detail how have
you addressed these issues?
POWERS: We’ve focused on developers and architects since the beginning, because in our view hardly anyone else in this business has. Grid computing will only be a mainstream technology when we make the process of building distributed applications as familiar and simple as developing any other type of application – and Digipede has been working to do just that.
So let me drill down a bit on that earlier point about our new debugging package for Visual Studio 2005. Debugging remote applications has traditionally been one of the most complicated and time-consuming parts of deploying robust enterprise-ready applications on a grid. With the new Visual Studio debugging package, Digipede has now broken this barrier – developers can debug distributed applications from within their own debugging environment on a single workstation. That may sound minor and kind of geeky, but it helps our customers and ISV partners get their distributed applications completed and into production faster than ever before.
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