As your Industry Partner, Parabon can: • Help you secure funding to

launch your business. • Enable you to capitalize on your

domain expertise. • Provide high-performance

computation on demand to power your applications.

• Help you create and market

Grid Software as a Service applications.

Launch Your Grid Software as a Service (GSaaS) Business

Parabon’s Frontier® Grid Services provide a whole new business model for high-performance computing (HPC) and scalable applications. To determine if your app has the potential to drive a successful on-demand business, review the self-assessment checklist and then follow our 3-step process outlined below.

Benefits of GSaaS Accessible by users, worldwide, 24x7.

Reduced need for “big iron” purchases.

Easy “version control” management.

Rapid adoption of app. and upgrades.

Complimentary back-office support.

Capitalize on your domain expertise.

Researchers often create applications that rely on “big iron” computing resources located on university campuses. These “big iron” solutions are costly and become a roadblock to commercialization. Now, there’s a better path to commercialization. You can capitalize on your domain expertise through your innovative, Grid Software as a Service (GSaaS) application powered by the Frontier Grid Platform!

Commercializing Frontier-Powered Applications is Easy

1. Plan Schedule a consultation with a Parabon commercialization expert. Parabon will help you determine the technical and commercial feasibility of your GSaaS idea, and help you develop a funding plan. Visit www.parabon.com/gsaas.

2. Build -- or Enable -- Your App to Run on Frontier You can build or enable your application to run on the Frontier Grid Platform yourself using Parabon’s extensive development tools (or contract Parabon to do it for you). When the app is complete, submit it to Parabon for a quality assurance check. Once authorized, Parabon will publish your application and make it available to users worldwide.

3. Launch & Market Your GSaaS Business! Set your fee schedule and licensing parameters. Once your application is available in Parabon’s online portal, begin promoting and capitalizing on your new GSaaS business!

The 3-Step Process To Quickly Launch Your GSaaS Business

* If you answered “yes” to all the questions, you’re ready to get started with Parabon!

Yes! * 1. Does your application address a market need? 2. Do you wish to capitalize on your domain expertise and research application? 3. Is your application compute-intensive or does it require grid-scale capacity? 4. Would you like to make your application available to users worldwide? 5. Could you benefit from an experienced industry partner?

Self-Assessment: Are You Ready to Launch a GSaaS Business Business?

Grid-Scale

Computation on Demand

Back-Office

Job Scheduling

Online Portal

Your GSaaS

Business

How a Partnership with Parabon Works

Grid Software as a Service (GSaaS): A software deployment of a compute-intensive or highly scalable application, powered by the Frontier Grid Platform, that is hosted as a service and available to users worldwide.

Get Started Now! Contact us at partners@parabon.com or visit

http://parabon.com/gsaas/

Parabon is a veteran innovator seeking domain experts, like yourself, to jointly build GSaaS business solutions. Your Role: You are the domain expert. You will drive the business logic of the application, maintain it, and make licensing decisions associated with it.

Parabon’s Role: Parabon provides the grid computing and commercialization expertise. Parabon’s Frontier Grid Platform will power your app, and allow users to access it 24x7 via an online portal. Parabon is responsible for all server-side and back-office tasks, such

such as job scheduling, system monitoring, usage tracking, income collection and payments to you.

Revenue: You get to set all fees associated with the licensing paid by the end user. In addition to your fees, Parabon charges the end user fees based on the amount of computation used. Parabon will bill the end user using the fee schedule you and Parabon have jointly agreed to, and then pay you on a monthly or quarterly basis.

Intellectual Property (IP): Parabon believes IP should belong to the originating partner. If your GSaaS is successful, then Parabon will be successful too. Partners with an already-developed application or prototype own the IP. If you and Parabon jointly fund and develop an application, IP sharing will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Optimization of simulations Biodefense Predictive analysis Nanotechnology design Genomic sequencing Multi-modal biometrics Modeling & simulation Proteomics

Drug discovery Logistics planning Decision support Robotic motion planning Parameter studies Machine learning Steganography And many more

Domains Well-Suited for Frontier

11260 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 406 Reston, VA 20190-5203 Phone 703.689.9689 Fax 703.689.9695 | www.parabon.com

Collaboration Success Stories

George Mason University

Domain: Evolutionary Computation

Created commercial grade product based on academic software Funded researchers via donations and subcontracts Co-developed opportunistic evolution, a novel evolutionary algorithm

Parabon received NASA funding to create a commercial grade framework to enable evolutionary computation (EC) algorithms to run across the Frontier® Grid Platform. In collaboration with Sean Luke, PhD, author of ECJ, a research evolutionary computation framework, Parabon created the Origin™ Evolutionary SDK, a commercial grade EC framework based on ECJ.

Marshall University

Domain: DNA Nanotechnology

Created a new company with academic collaborators Funded post-doctoral candidates to further university research Partnered and won federal government grants and contracts Currently transferring university-based technologies into industry

Working collaboratively with Dr. Norton and other leading DNA nanotechnology experts, Parabon created the inSēquio™ Sequence Design Studio, a CAD (computer aided design) application that runs on Parabon’s Frontier® Grid Platform. It allows researchers to perform DNA sequence optimizations that are not otherwise possible. As a result, Parabon, and its academic collaborators, co-founded Parabon NanoLabs, Inc., a nanotechnology company that designs and develops a new class of clinical therapeutics using optimized synthetic DNA structures.

West Virginia University

Domain: Communication Simulations

Partnered and won federal government grants and contracts Sped simulations that led to significant scientific findings Encouraged and supported publications on collaborative work Creating a Frontier-powered service for the telecom industry

Next generation cellular, satellite, and wireless broadband systems are extraordinarily complex systems that must be thoroughly tested before they are deployed, but each computational scenario can easily take, using traditional computing methods, 36 hours or more. Today, Matt Valenti, PhD runs millions of fine-grained scenarios in minutes on Frontier and performs more accurate analysis. He has uncovered significant scientific perturbations in turbo code optimization curves that have impacts on the telecommunications industry. Dr. Valenti was recently awarded a $576,000 grant from NSF to package his Frontier-enabled application for the telecommunications industry.

Get Started Now! Contact us at partners@parabon.com or visit http://parabon.com/gsaas/