Base One receives US patent for Grid tech

NEW DELHI: US based company Base One has received U.S. patent for its Grid/Cluster technology that simplifies the deployment of high-efficiency applications which can store and retrieve data residing on remote databases.

According to the company's website Base One's software is the first grid-computing product for building Windows applications that is available in "shrink wrap" form. The software has been enhanced over years of production use, and it can be put into implementation quickly, with limited start-up costs.

Base One's grid computing software has been tested in customer environments such as Deutsch Bank, Marsh & McLennan, and Competitive Media Reporting.

The company has a development center in Bangalore since 1997, and was the first software company to develop and sell database-oriented tools for building peer-to-peer applications.

According to Base One president and CTO Steven Asherman, there is a vast market for high-performance database applications built on computer grids and clusters.