Frontier (grid computing platform)
- Frontier (grid computing platform)
Frontier is the central computing platform of Parabon Computation, Inc. When it was released in 2000, it was the only commercially available platform of its kind. Frontier powers both public and private networks, and boasts affiliations with two of the largest public grids: the Global Grid Exchange and the Compute Against Cancer network.
External links
* [http://www.parabon.com/ Parabon Computation]
* [http://www.globalgridexchange.com/ Global Grid Exchange]
* [http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/ Compute Against Cancer]
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