SIMtone's ASPEED achieves dramatic response time improvements by enabling new and existing applications to exploit multi-core, multi-CPU, desktop, server, workgroup, cluster and grid configurations with its unique application expediting functionality.

SIMtone's ASPEED is not dependent of any infrastructure components beyond those normally on any desktop or server. Additionally because it is an application implementation there are no co-requisite management servers or additional infrastructure components required.

If the environment has unique scheduling and resource management infrastructure the applications enabled by SIMtone's ASPEED will be able to leverage these. For example current SIMtone clients use ASPEED on their DataSynapse, Platform and United Devices grids.

Technologically, SIMtone's ASPEED consists of an API, an ASPEED engine and SIMtone provided high performance communications middleware (ACCom) which are all linked into the application. When an ASPEED accelerated application is run, the ASPEED Engine spawns and manages the workload to the instantiations as needed. Should the target environment demand MPI or other communications middleware, the ASPEED accelerated application can transparently use other communications middleware including MPI, PVM and other specialty protocols.

This approach enables the application architecture to be opened to new configurations and higher robustness without altering the business or algorithmic logic. Once accelerated with SIMtone's ASPEED the application is in charge of its own destiny and performance and is enabled at run-time and while executing to dynamically  adjustment  the execution workload based on the interim results and progress. This application infrastructure also enables a repeatable methodology that lets developers focus on business logic and processes rather than the complexities typically associated with developing, maintaining and tuning distributed programs while ensuring optimum and reliable response time.