eXludus received venture capital funding in early 2005 with a vision to bring revolutionary technology for optimizing workloads and enhancing scalability in high througput environments. Founded by Benoît Marchand, a well-known expert in high performance and grid computing circles, eXludus began prototyping its innovative software in 2003. It was soon apparent that this job and data provisioning software would substantially impact queuing and transfer bottlenecks that often plague cluster computers and edge grids. Over the course of the next two years, the technology was refined and benchmarked in a variety of compute and data intensive scenarios and in the second half of 2005, the first products were released to the market with rapid and widespread acceptance. Today, eXludus is quickly gaining recognition as the leader in schedule optimization and data provisioning technology, delivering increased efficiency and outstanding ROI to its customers. Customers are typically found in industries where there is a high demand for the expeditious processing of large amounts of data such as the financial, oil and gas, life sciences, manufacturing, research, and public sectors. eXludus’s technology provides a cost effective means for scaling large computational clusters and grids and for getting the most out of their compute node, network and file server infrastructures. The company is headquartered in Montréal, Canada with offices in Cupertino, California and Sittingbourne, Kent, UK. Research and development is a continual process at eXludus as we expand our product offerings and improve our technology. Currently eXludus’s core product suites include Grid Optimizer, incorporating SchedOpt, for enhanced scheduling of dynamic workloads, and RepliCator for parallel file serving. eXludus software is designed to run efficiently with existing workloads and existing cluster and Grid infrastructure, and without application modification or any additional development.