Palo Alto, California-based Meiosys’ MetaCluster technology is designed to enable users to optimize their server infrastructure by dynamically relocating applications to make the best use of available resources.
The company was founded in Paris, France in 2001 as Cimai Technologies and introduced the MetaCluster HPC product for the Linux operating system in 2003. Since then the technology has also been ported to Sun Microsystems Inc’s Solaris Unix variant.
Meanwhile, MetaCluster UC and MetaCluster FT models have also been introduced to target opportunities with utility computing and fault-tolerant capabilities. IBM said it plans to integrate the technology into its products, particularly its own AIX 5L Unix operating system and Linux offerings.
Unlike virtual machine partitions that virtualize at the operating-system level, MetaCluster virtualizes between an operating system and an application running on that system.
The MetaCluster products are based on a common core technology that offers application resource utilization and checkpoint and restart functionality, which captures and saves the state of an application at a given time, for relocation or later restart.
MetaCluster HPC enables load-balancing, business continuance, and resource optimization for high-performance clusters. The MetaCluster UC product also features the MetaCluster Application Relocation Manager to monitor infrastructure resources and control the relocation of applications, while the MetaCluster FT product adds MetaCluster Fault Tolerance Supervisor to manage fail-over of applications and the MetaCluster Record and Replay Module to maintain an application during hot fail-over.
