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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>Pooch: "Plug and Play" Parallel Computing and Cluster Management</h1></div>
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<p>--For immediate release--</p>
<p>First Major Update to Pooch Now Shipping</p>
<p>"Plug and Play" Parallel Computing and Cluster Management Software Gets a Boost</p>
<p>Huntington Beach, California, USA - October 17, 2001 - Dauger Research,<br />
Inc., today announced the availability of version 1.1 of Pooch, the<br />
Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic application. The latest update<br />
introduces its implementation of the AppleScript interface with a host of<br />
new features. In addition, Pooch is fully operational and fully supported<br />
on Mac OS X 10.1.</p>
<p>The announcement arrives following the presentation of a major industry<br />
award to Pooch. On October 10 at the IEEE Cluster 2001 Conference, Pooch<br />
was awarded the "Best Commercial Exhibit - Software" prize "for most<br />
innnovative commercial software product" exhibited at that international,<br />
leading-edge, and authoritative conference on cluster computing.</p>
<p>Pooch is designed to combine powerful, numerically-intensive<br />
parallel-computing clusters with the famed ease-of-use of the Macintosh. It<br />
provides the user interface for the latest incarnation of AppleSeed, a<br />
project begun by a pair of UCLA physics researchers in 1998. Their software<br />
is used world-wide for easy-to-use and numerically-intensive parallel<br />
computing.</p>
<p>Pooch's new AppleScript implementation opens a wealth of new possibilities<br />
for parallel computer users. Jobs may be launched using scripts customized<br />
and automated for any particular task. That includes both transient and<br />
persistent scripts, such as for customized, automated job queuing tasks.<br />
Directing Pooch from OS X's Unix command line is available via a free,<br />
open-source utility named plaunch, which operates by translating Unix<br />
options into AppleScript commands and executing scripts from the command<br />
line. In addition, other applications may use AppleEvents, the<br />
communications structure upon which AppleScript is based, to direct Pooch<br />
to launch jobs that perform computational tasks. A demonstration of that<br />
ability to automate parallel executable launches is present in the latest<br />
AltiVec Fractal Carbon demo, available from the Dauger Research web site.</p>
<p>The new version of Pooch also introduces a wide array of new features and<br />
bug fixes. The new features include the addition of a heuristic algorithm<br />
to utilize the "best" resources found in the cluster, making "Computing<br />
Grid"-like behavior possible. Optimizations to Pooch's network<br />
implementation were made, improving file transfer speed and launch times.<br />
Other features provide OS X-specific abilities, such as Unix-based load<br />
measurement of processes and the ability to recognize and parallel launch<br />
executables compiled via GCC.</p>
<p>Pooch v1.1 is available now at US$150 for the first compute node then<br />
US$100 for each node thereafter. Current users with an active subscription<br />
to Pooch will be receiving their free updates shortly.</p>
<p>For further details and a demonstration version of the software, see the<br />
Dauger Research web site at: <a href="http://daugerresearch.com" title="http://daugerresearch.com">http://daugerresearch.com</a></p>
<p>Pooch requires networked Macintoshes running OS 9 with CarbonLib 1.2 or<br />
later or OS X 10.1 or later with 4 MB of available RAM and 2 MB of disk<br />
space.</p>
<p>Dauger Research, Inc., was incorporated in September 2001 and founded by<br />
Dr. Dean E. Dauger. Dr. Dauger is the award-winning author of Atom in a Box<br />
and Fresnel Diffraction Explorer and has co-authored award-winning<br />
commercial software as early as 1992. After completing his Ph. D. in<br />
physics, he founded Dauger Research, Inc., to bridge the divides between<br />
the scientifically and technically complex and the mainstream by making<br />
high-performance computation and visualization easy to use and accessible<br />
to users.</p>
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