Adaptive Computing™
Adaptive Computing provides intelligent automation software for data center, cloud, and high-performance computing environments. The company’s infrastructure intelligence solutions, powered by Moab®, deliver policy-based governance that allows customers to consolidate and virtualize resources, allocate and manage applications, optimize service levels, and reduce operational costs.
Adaptive Computing products manage the world’s largest computing installations and are the preferred intelligent automation solutions for the leading global data center vendors.
Company History
1996—David Jackson, CTO and CEO of Adaptive Computing, envisioned intelligent cluster-management software based on a technology foundation initiated with the Supercluster Development Group. With this new software technology, multiple computers would be able to work together intelligently, and the software would enable organizations to fully understand, control, and optimize their valuable compute resources.
The initial fruition of Dave's envisioned cluster-management technology was the open-source Maui Scheduler, which began with the basic abilities to manage when jobs were processed, which jobs should be given higher priority, and how to share resources fairly according to defined rules. This open-source solution became the foundation for more than a thousand client sites worldwide.
2001—Cluster Resources Inc. was founded to commercialize the new software technology under the Moab® family brand. At the core of the Moab technology is a next-generation policy-based intelligence engine and scheduler for scalable and large-enterprise computing facilities and utility-based computing environments. Moab's architecture goes far beyond the capabilities of the open-source Maui Scheduler to enable dynamic management of infrastructure resources, software licenses, file spaces, and other devices. All of Maui Scheduler's capabilities are found in Moab; Moab also adds such features as virtual private clusters, basic trigger support, graphical administration tools, and a Web-based user portal.
2007—Cluster Resources' revenue is almost evenly split between two industry sectors—the emerging adaptive-data-center and cloud-computing markets and the high-performance-computing (HPC) market, where Moab technology had become the de facto standard in scientific, government, and academic computing labs worldwide. This parity in sales between the two industry sectors signaled a significant transformation in the way large commercial enterprises were addressing their changing IT needs.
2009—With revenue from the adaptive-data-center and cloud-computing sector now outpacing revenue from the HPC market, Cluster Resources Inc. changed its name to Adaptive Computing Enterprises Inc. and began operating under the corporate brand Adaptive Computing™, which more accurately reflects the company's expanded focus on both the HPC and the commercial-data-center and cloud sectors. The company will continue to use the Cluster Resources brand name on certain HPC-specific products because of its decade-long global reputation as the industry leader within the HPC market.
Ownership
The company is 100% privately held by its founders and employees and has no external or investor ownership, no debt, and growing cash reserves.
Locations and Facilities
The company's headquarters is in Provo, Utah (USA), with employee and consulting representation in East Coast, Pacific, and Southern U.S. locations and European headquarters in the United Kingdom. The company has grown steadily every year since inception and currently has over 70 employees.
Strategic Partnerships
Through strategic relationships and tight alignment with global leaders, including HP and IBM, Adaptive Computing is able to deliver enterprise solutions that are defining the market while leveraging the investments customers have in their trusted infrastructure providers. Moab's integrated, additive approach allows organizations to achieve intelligent adaptive-data-center and cloud-computing capabilities without replacing their existing investments in infrastructure, middleware, or virtualization technologies and to incorporate future infrastructure acquisitions.
Trusted and Experienced
The Moab family of products is trusted by the most security-sensitive and scale-intensive computing environments in the world, including leading international banks, government agencies, manufacturers, healthcare and service organizations, and global commercial enterprises.
Half of the world's 20 most powerful computing installations are Moab-managed systems. Moab is licensed on the three most powerful systems in the world: No. 1 (Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with a speed of 1.75 petaflop/s), No. 2 (Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory, with a speed of 1.04 petaflop/s), and No. 3 (Kraken at the University of Tennessee, with a speed of 831.7 teraflop/s). (Source: Top500 list announced at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon, November 2009.)