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{{Short description|Software company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Univa, An Altair Company
| logo = Univa logo.jpg
| type =
| foundation = [[Lisle, Illinois]] (2004)
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| key_people =
| location = [[Troy, Michigan|Troy]], [[Michigan]], United States
| num_employees =
| industry = [[Cloud computing]], [[Distributed computing]], [[Grid computing]], [[Computer software]]
| products = [[Univa Grid Engine]], License Orchestrator, and Navops Launch
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| homepage = {{URL|https://www.altair.com/}}
}}
'''Univa''' was a software company that developed workload management and cloud management products for compute-intensive applications in the data center and across public, private, and hybrid clouds, before being acquired by [[Altair Engineering]] in September 2020.
Univa software manages diverse application workloads and resources, helping enterprises scale and automate infrastructure to maximize efficiency and throughput while also helping them manage cloud spending.
Univa’s primary market was [[High Performance Computing]] (HPC). Its products were used in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, life sciences, energy, government labs and universities. Univa software was used to manage large-scale HPC, analytic, and machine learning applications across these industries.
== Products and services ==
Univa developed, sold, and supported [[Univa Grid Engine]] software, Univa's version of the popular [[Grid Engine]] workload manager. Univa also offered Navops Launch, a solution providing cloud migration, cloud automation, and cloud spend management for users of Univa Grid Engine.
Univa announced in January 2011 that it hired personnel formerly working for [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] and [[Sun Microsystems]] on [[Grid Engine]] development. On April 12, 2011, Univa rolled out its initial commercial release of [[Univa Grid Engine]] based on open source Grid Engine. The commercial released offered new functionality related to performance, and resource control for small and large clusters and provided enterprise customers with support services.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Staff|title=Univa Rolls Out New Version of Grid Engine|url=http://insidehpc.com/2014/09/univa-rolls-new-version-grid-engine/|website=InsideHPC.com|date=2 September 2014|publisher=Inside HPC Media LLC|access-date=8 December 2016}}</ref>
On October 22, 2013 Univa announced it acquired the [[intellectual property]], copyrights and trademarks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology from Oracle and that it would support [[Oracle Grid Engine]] customers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.enterpriseai.news/2013/10/22/univa-takes-control-grid-engine-oracle/|date=Oct 22, 2013|title=Univa Takes Over Control of Grid Engine from Oracle }}</ref>
Univa announced [http://www.univa.com/products/navops.php Navops] in May 2016,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.devopsdigest.com/univa-announces-navops-command|title=Univa Announces Navops |access-date=2016-12-09}}</ref> a new business unit with products enabling enterprises to easily migrate to the cloud or deploy hybrid clouds. Among the public clouds supported by Navops Launch are [[Amazon Web Services]] (AWS), [[Google Cloud Platform]], and [[Microsoft Azure]].
Navops Launch provides cloud automation features to dynamically configure cloud-based [[Univa Grid Engine]] clusters and scale them based on application workloads and configurable policies. Navops Launch also provides cloud spend management features to help organizations monitor and manage cloud spending by extracting information from cloud-specific APIs. Organizations can use Navops Launch to manage spending by project, group, department, and cost-center.
Univa enhanced both [[Univa Grid Engine]] and Navops Launch, supporting new operating environments, machine architectures, and cloud providers. Key areas of focus for both Univa Grid Engine and Navops Launch have been around performance and scalability. Both were demonstrated by a well-publicized one million core cluster deployment in AWS announced in June 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180627006040/en/Univa-Demonstrates-Extreme-Scale-Automation-Deploying-Million|title=Univa Demonstrates Extreme Scale Automation by Deploying More Than One Million Cores in a Single Cluster Using AWS|access-date=2018-06-27}}</ref> Other areas of focus have been around managing containerized and [[Graphics processing unit|GPU]]-aware application workloads.
Univa offered support services, education services, and consulting services related to installation, tuning, and configuration for all of its products.
== History ==
Univa was founded in 2004 under the name '''Univa Corporation''' by [[Carl Kesselman]], [[Ian Foster (computer scientist)|Ian Foster]], and Steve Tuecke and was at that time primarily known for providing [[open source]] products and technical support based around the Globus Toolkit.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
On September 17, 2007, the company announced that it would merge with the Austin, Texas-based [[United Devices]] and operate under the new name '''Univa UD'''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-09-17|title=Univa and United Devices Merge|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20070917005854/en/Univa-and-United-Devices-Merge|access-date=2020-12-02|website=www.businesswire.com|language=en}}</ref>
The company operated as Univa UD until formally dropping "UD" and returning to common use of Univa Corporation. Univa announced, on January 17, 2011, that it had hired the principal and founding engineers of the Grid Engine team.
On Oct 22, 2013 Univa announced that it had acquired the [[intellectual property]] as well the copyrights and trademarks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology from [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] and trademarks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology from [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] and that it will take over supporting Oracle Grid Engine customers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.enterpriseai.news/2013/10/22/univa-takes-control-grid-engine-oracle/|title=Univa Takes Over Control of Grid Engine from Oracle|date=22 October 2013}}</ref>
In June 2014, a technical partnership between [[Force India|Sahara Force India Formula One Team]] and Univa was announced.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/univa-becomes-partner-Sahara-force-india-formula-one-team/|title = Univa Becomes Partner of Sahara Force India Formula One Team}}</ref>
In May 2016, Univa announced a new business unit, [[Navops]] with a product line<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.devopsdigest.com/univa-announces-navops-command|title = Univa Announces Navops Command &#124; DEVOPSdigest}}</ref> based on its Grid Engine cluster workload scheduling technology previously developed at [[Sun Microsystems]] and later acquired by Univa from [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]]. Navops Launch enables enterprises to migrate workloads to cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
In March 2018 Univa open-sources Navops Launch (née Unicloud) as Project Tortuga under an [[Apache license|Apache 2.0 license]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tfir.io/univa-open-sources-navops-launch-as-project-tortuga/|date=March 20, 2018|title=Univa Open Sources Navops Launch As Project Tortuga}}</ref>
In September 2019, Univa announced enhancements to Navops Launch in a 2.0 release, including an enhanced UI, improved automation, and spend management features.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2020-01-29/univa-announces-general-availability-of-navops-launch-2-0|date=January 29, 2020|title=Univa Announces General Availability of Navops Launch 2.0|website=[[Bloomberg News]]}}</ref>
In September 2020, Altair Engineering, a global technology company providing solutions in data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC) acquired Univa.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://atc2020.virtual.altair.com/|date=September 14, 2020|title=Altair Acquires Univa}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Computational grid]]
* [[grid.org]]
* [[Job scheduler]]s
* [[High-performance computing]]
* [[Supercomputing]]
* [[Big data]]
* [[Distributed computing]]
* [[Grid computing]]
* [[Grid computing#CPU scavenging|CPU scavenging]]
* [[Cloud computing]]
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