History
Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas, United Devices began with distributed computing expertise from distributed.net and SETI@home, although only a few of the original technical staff from those organizations are still on board.
In April 2001, grid.org was formally launched as a philanthropic non-profit website to demonstrate the benefits of Internet-based large scale grid computing.
Later in 2002 with help from UD, NTT Data launched a similar Internet-based Cell Computing project targeting Japanese users. In 2004, IBM and United Devices worked together to start the World Community Grid project as another demonstration of Internet-based grid computing.
In August 2005, United Devices acquired the Paris-based GridXpert company and added Synergy to its product lineup.
In 2006, the company acknowledged seeing an industry shift from only using grid computing for compute-intensive applications towards data center automation and business application optimization.
Partly in response to the market shifts and reorganization, grid.org was shut down on April 27, 2007 after completing its mission to "demonstrate the viability and benefits of large-scale Internet-based grid computing".
On September 17, 2007, the company announced that it would merge with the Lisle, Illinois-based Univa and operate under the new name Univa UD. The combined company would offer open source solutions based around Globus Toolkit, while continuing to sell its existing grid products and support its existing customers.
On June 26, 2008, United Devices client software on World Community Grid finished its role and completely relayed to BOINC's.
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