JIVA Grid Network Suite Supports Windows, OS X . . . and now Linux

Grid computing system with applications in bioinformatics, pharmaceuticals, energy, financial analysis, engineering, and animation now supports Linux workstations and servers. The offering joins the existing clients for Windows and OS X, advancing the platform independence of JIVA grid networks.
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 31, 2006 — Brain Murmurs, Inc, a Seattle-based software research and development company, […]

JIVA Client for Linux out of beta!

Hi, this is Garrett Kelly. I’m a senior engineer over at Brain Murmurs and I’m in charge of the Linux distributions of JIVA.
After rigorous testing of the Linux JIVA Client today, I am proud to say that we have a new product to add to our suite of supported platforms. The Linux JIVA […]

Linux Screen Saver Beta

A release candidate of the JIVA Client for Linux can be downloaded from our GForge site. If you need it, you can download a compatible version of Java from Sun.
Release Notes:
This is a beta of the JIVA Screen Saver for Linux. It
requires Xscreensaver 4.19 or better and the Sun 1.5 JRE.
NOTE: gcj […]

Linux Update

The JIVA Xscreensaver module has been updated and is running like a top under Fedora RC4.

This isn’t ready for prime time yet (the default RPM install requires some tweaks afterwards in order to run) but the heavy lifting work has been done.
It is worth noting that JIVA does NOT work with gcj. If […]

New JIVA Builds Available For Download, Linux Client Update

The latest client and server builds have been posted on our downloads page and we have also updated the kernel build image on our public server: if you’ve already installed the JIVA client on your machine it will get the update automatically.
Nathan has modified the Windows screen saver to use the same configuration libraries […]

Linux and Solaris Daemons Online

If you check out the network stats page you should see a few Linux and one of our Sun boxes reporting in. We haven’t updated the packages yet, so these won’t be ready to download for a few days, but they are cranking away.
The Xscreensaver build is being updated to our new codebase but […]

JIVA Forums

We have set up a public GForge site for JIVA, including a forums area and a bug tracker. It will be a couple of days until we get at Thawte certificate for the site, so there will be a certificate warning when you go to it.
You don’t have to have an account to read […]

Seattle-based Grid Computing Vendor Releases Server Product For Immediate Download

Grid computing system with applications in bioinformatics, pharmaceuticals, energy, financial analysis, engineering, and animation now available for free download.
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 24, 2006 — Brain Murmurs, Inc, a Seattle-based software research and development company, has made a Windows version of its JIVA Grid Server available for immediate, anonymous download.
The system has wide range of […]

Seattle-based Grid Computing Vendor Expands Product Line to Include Intel Macintoshes

Seattle-based Grid Computing Vendor Expands Product Line to Include Intel Macintoshes
SEATTLE, WA, May 19th 2006 - Brain Murmurs, Inc, a Seattle-based software research and development company, continues its commitment to support the Apple platform with the release of Universal Binary versions of its JIVA grid computing clients.
Both the OS X Client Screen Saver and OS […]

OS X Screen Saver Performance Revisited

We were able to link directly to the 1.5 Server JVM and the results are gratifying!
The JIVA OS X screen saver client now scores 476 MFLOPS on our Scimark2 benchmark, up from 229 MFLOPS with the Client JVM on a 2.16 GHz Macbook Pro.
That’s a staggering 107% performance improvement!
Thanks, Apple!