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SAFE Corporation Opens Grid Computing System for Software IP Comparisons

CUPERTINO, CA, Oct 07, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation ( www.SAFE-corp.biz), the leading provider of software tools for detecting and measuring software intellectual property, has just announced CodeGrid(TM), a distributed computing system that enables CodeSuite(R) jobs to be run many times faster than ever before. CodeSuite is a suite of tools, consisting of CodeMatch(R), CodeDiff(R), and BitMatch(R), for comparing computer source code and object code to detect such things as plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trade secret theft. CodeSuite can also measure software intellectual property changes through various revisions of program releases. CodeSuite uses a computationally-intensive algorithm such that large jobs can take a long time to run, especially compared to the short schedule often required for IP litigation. In order to drastically improve performance, the engineers at S.A.F.E. Corporation developed a distributed computer grid, effectively creating a parallel-processing supercomputer out of off-the-shelf PCs. CodeGrid uses the same kind of technology as the grid systems used by NASA, CERN, and the National Science Foundation. According to Tim Hoehn, Research Engineer at S.A.F.E. Corporation and lead engineer of the CodeGrid project, "Over a year in development, CodeGrid has proven itself to perform even better than expected. We anticipated a large performance increase over stand-alone CodeSuite, but CodeGrid has actually performed better than our initial calculations. We are extremely satisfied with its performance."

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).