The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a unit of the University of Southern California's highly ranked Viterbi School of Engineering. ISI is one of the nation's largest, most successful university-affiliated computer research institutes. The Video, Image, Speech and Text Analytics (VISTA) group at ISI has spent the past three years advancing the state of research for facial recognition, a technology with significant implications for security and commerce. In order to conduct this research, "We needed a reliable, powerful workload management platform that would enhance performance and have the ability to run complex, diverse workloads across multiple users within the entire ISI organization," said Stephen Rawls, programmer and research analyst. VISTA selected Univa Grid Engine and cites key contributing factors over other vendors: built-in advanced GPU support, detailed documentation, ongoing product upgrades and customer support.