St. Louis, MO - Tsunami Research™ announced that it is now shipping version 1.0 of HiveCreator™. HiveCreator is a software toolkit that businesses and other organizations can use to enable large numbers of dedicated, commodity computers to form a mission critical computing environment called a Hive™. HiveCreator enables businesses and other organizations to both increase the reliability of mission critical applications and realize order of magnitude reductions in the cost of developing, deploying, and managing such applications. “When it comes to mission critical computing, businesses and other organizations are forced to trade off two equally important factors: reliability and affordability. Existing solutions like fault tolerant computers are reliable but are hardware or operating system based and thus are extremely expensive. Commodity computers are affordable but are not reliable enough to do important work,” said Bob Lozano, CEO of Tsunami Research. “HiveCreator eliminates the need for such tradeoffs. A Hive combines the reliability of a fault tolerant computer and the affordability of a commodity computer. HiveCreator will enable organizations to achieve a 90% reduction in the acquisition cost, and a 50% reduction in the development and operational costs, of mission critical computing solutions. Hive Computing™ is able to deliver on this promise because it is based on three very different assumptions. First, a Hive assumes the application is all that matters. A Hive forms an application fabric that allows developers and administrators to focus on the task at hand, not the complexities of the physical environment. Second, just as TCP/IP assumes networks will fail, a Hive assumes computers will fail. A Hive possesses a Collective Intelligence™ that allows it to deal with failure, not fear it. Third, a Hive assumes computers are disposable. Its self-organizing, self-managing, and self-healing capabilities make it practical to build a Hive from inexpensive, PC-grade components. “Many startups are taking advantage of the growing capabilities and falling costs of commodity computers to build less expensive supercomputers,” said John Shepard, CEO of Shepard Group International, a Tsunami Research Business Partner. “What excites us about what Tsunami Research is doing is that HiveCreator is the first solution to target the much larger market for fault tolerant and other mission critical computing solutions. We believe HiveCreator will revolutionize and grow the mission critical computing market by making reliability affordable.” A Hive is ideally suited to deploying transaction-oriented and other mission critical applications. This includes trading systems and other financial service applications; homeland defense, law enforcement, and military applications; and any application which demands extraordinarily high levels of reliability. "Transaction-oriented applications are the bread and butter of a business," said Ahmar Abbas, managing director of Grid Technology Partners, a market research and consulting firm. "By breaking through to new levels of application reliability, Hive Computing delivers a cost-effective infrastructure that businesses can trust for their most critical applications." HiveCreator is available today through a national network of Tsunami Research Business Partners and is aggressively priced. HiveCreator will cost less than what most companies are paying just to maintain their existing mission critical computing solutions. A special HiveCreator Evaluation Edition will be available on the company’s website in the next few weeks. This version has a 90-day license key and will allow the user to create a 3-Worker Hive. The HiveCreator API supports Java®, C/C++ for Windows®, and C/C++ for UNIX. HiveCreator is platform agile and can be deployed on Windows® 2000, Windows® XP, and FreeBSD 4.7. A version of HiveCreator for Linux will be available in the next few weeks. HiveCreator is designed to be deployed on dedicated, commodity computers that have a Pentium® or Athlon® class processor, 256 MB RAM, a 5 GB hard drive, and an Ethernet card.