ProActive 4.2.0, Open Source Java Grid & Cloud Framework, released

ActiveEon engineers and OASIS research team are very pleased to share with you ProActive Parallel Suite® 4.2. This new version is released after a lot of tests and improvements increasing the stability of the Technological Preview version issued few weeks ago.

Community Edition can be downloaded at http://www.activeeon.com/community-downloads

Enterprise Edition can be downloaded at http://www.activeeon.com/enterprise-downloads

ProActive Parallel Suite provides:

• ProActive Scheduling: A configurable and powerful job scheduler that helps you to benefit from a higher computing power without having to invest in new hardware resources. It runs everywhere, effectively leverages heterogeneous non dedicated hardware and can be set up and used by everyone.
• ProActive Resourcing: An open source intelligent and adaptive application deployment engine to virtualize the hardware resources, monitor and control all computing resources. Resources management gets easier and highly configurable.
• ProActive Programming: A unique and easy to use library for parallel and distributed programming that makes accelerated and powerful applications within everyone's reach. Thanks to a comprehensive set of efficient base structured patterns everyone can quickly build a parallel application!

Major improvements in ProActive Parallel Suite 4.2 are a powerful run time annotation, an easier remote debugging, Web Service exposition (Axis 2 and CXF), support of Virtual Machines (VMware ESX/ESXi/Server, Citrix XenServer, XenOSS, MS Hyper-V, Sun Virtualbox, KVM, Qemu, LXC, OpenVZ), and Cloud support with Amazon EC2.

Find more on ProActive new features here: http://www.activeeon.com/blog/uncategorized/new-released-of-proactive-parallel-suite%c2%ae-4-2-0