Grid MP is a commercial distributed computing software package developed and sold by Univa (formerly known as United Devices), a privately held company based primarily in Austin, Texas.
Grid MP provides job scheduling with prioritization, user security restrictions, selective application exclusion, user-activity detection, and time-of-day execution controls.
Grid MP can be used to manage computational Devices consisting of corporate desktop PCs, departmental servers, or dedicated cluster nodes.
Despite its ability to "scale seamlessly to hundreds of thousands of device nodes"[4] it is also suitable for smaller clusters of enterprise servers or workstations.
Since MGSI is a web service protocol, any programming language that has a SOAP or XML-RPC library available can be used to interface with it,[5] although commonly C++, Java, Perl, and PHP are used.