GridGrain Systems announced the release of GridGrain 2.0, the next version of open-source Java grid computing platform. GridGain 2.0 provides an open-source grid computing infrastructure that combines a focus on Enterprise Java and features.

Since its release in August 2007 GridGain became the fastest growing Java grid computing infrastructure with over 10,000 downloads and more than 500 projects utilizing it, and deployed in a dozen production systems.

The GridGain 2.0 release incorporates a number of new and enhanced features:

• Advance MapReduce implementation
• Comprehensive early and late load balancing capabilities
• Automatic and dynamic data partitioning and processing co-location
• Native support for leading data caching products such as JBoss Cache and Oracle Coherence
• Advanced scheduling management
• Improved runtime metrics, monitoring and management

GridGain founder Nikita Ivanov says: “GridGain demonstrated that when grid computing is done right, it will be used by a wide range of applications - from big systems to small and from small startups to global corporations. Just seven months ago GridGain was a new product that in a short period of time developed to a grid computing platform that starts every three minutes somewhere around the globe. Fundamental concepts of grid computing such as data and processing parallelization are extremely appealing to enterprise developers. GridGain employs these fundamental concepts that make grid computing a simple reality that can be easily harnessed right now today.

“GridGain 2.0 solidifies technological foundation for the new directions in GridGain development. We already have GridGain running on Google Android in our tests and we are working to make GridGain the ideal choice for emerging mobile grid computing market. Following releases will provide unique integration of grid computing with Web 2.0 applications utilizing REST and JSON technologies. We are also focusing on deep integration with Amazon EC2 and on significant improvements for management and runtime monitoring - all of the features that our customers will see in the future releases,” Ivanov says.