THE PC EMULATOR - Isis Project No 2591

The creation of a virtual environment for a complete operating system and software in a pure Java environment without loss of speed.

Marketing Opportunity

What if you could take your IT setup wherever you go and only have to maintain one software environment.

• You could track all your files across multiple machines: home, business, phone, PDA.
• A company could sell its idle or spare computing capacity to others providing a better return on capital investment and manage the risk or wastage of overprovision of resources.
• You would be able to use other’s spare capacity thereby reducing the pressure for peak demand rather than average, and potentially access resources on a massive scale.

Security is the big issue.

The Oxford Invention

The Oxford group has developed a system of Hardware Virtualization that simulates a computer “inside” a computer – the software doesn’t know the difference. The system runs on almost any hardware, therefore you can run your virtual PC anywhere. You could send people/clients complete PC systems as email attachments, and you can get ultimate backups.

This fluid access to Grid resources allows:

• sending of an entire PC to other resources to perform tasks sequentially or in parallel many thousands of times; and
• your hardware to be used by others as the system sandbox ensures Hardware level isolation from other data and resources.

Patent Status

This is one of several pieces of technology supporting a proposed spin-out, and is the subject of patent application. Isis would like to talk to companies that would be interested in using this versatile computing facility.

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