SAFE Corporation Opens Grid Computing System
for Software IP Comparisons
CUPERTINO, CA (October 7, 2008) - Software Analysis
& Forensic Engineering Corporation, the leading
provider of software tools for detecting and measuring
software intellectual property, has just announced CodeGrid™,
a distributed computing system that enables CodeSuite®
jobs to be run many times faster than ever before. CodeSuite
is a suite of tools, consisting of CodeMatch®, CodeDiff®,
and BitMatch®, 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."
About SAFE Corporation
SAFE Corporation is the leading firm providing software and
services for discovering intellectual property theft, measuring
software IP, and comparing software source code and object
code. CodeSuite has been used by law firms for IP litigation
cases around the world. CodeSuite has also been used by tax
attorneys to track changes through multiple generations of
programs in order to do accurate IP valuations. The corporate
headquarters is in Cupertino, California.
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BitMatch, CodeDiff, CodeMatch, and CodeSuite are trademarks
of Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corporation.
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