Evolutionary computing start-up Codefarm wins a second DTI innovation award
1 September 2003
Codefarm, the evolutionary computing specialist, has won a Grant for Research and Development from the UK Government Department of Trade and Industry. The award will provide funding for work on the Brighton-based company's core distributed processing technology, the Codefarm Desktop Grid.
“This second DTI award is very important to us because although we have very clear objectives and potential clients for the business, we currently lack capital and have been funding the company from our own resources,” said Jeremy Mabbitt, founding director of Codefarm. “The award will enable us to develop a new product for peer-to-peer distributed processing, requiring significantly lower overheads in terms of configuration and maintenance than conventional distributed processing products. Codefarm Desktop Grid will be ideally suited to evolutionary computing applications, and will integrate with our Galapagos evolutionary computing platform.”
Jeremy Mabbitt continued: “The DTI has already helped us through its High Growth Start-Up scheme and a first Smart Award that enabled us to carry out a feasibility study of the commercial potential of our proposed Galapagos evolutionary computing product. This second Smart Award which for research and development into a new distributed processing product clearly shows that the DTI sees the potential of our commercial aims and the sound basis upon which we have developed our plans.”
The DTI Smart scheme, and its replacement the Grant for Research and Development, foster innovative approaches to technological challenges by providing grants to help small and medium-sized businesses take promising new products or processes to pre-production prototype stage.