BioTeam first became interested in Univa U's software efforts after hearing Univa CTO Steve Tuecke speak in Regensburg, Germany at the 2007 Grid Engine workshop. Shortly after that event Univa formally became Univa UD after merging with United Devices. At the time, Steve's company seemed to be one of the few companies positioning themselves to offer full support and professional services encompassing commonly used open source products such as Sun Grid Engine that BioTeam often works with in the field. Individually these popular open source resources are relatively easy to acquire but Univa UD seemed to be making an interesting effort to become the one stop shop for a fully supported and integrated set of commonly required tools and technology.

One outcome of the new Univa UD is the UniCluster Express effort. UniCluster Express is a cluster toolstack capable of deploying fully configured and integrated set of technologies including Grid Engine 6.1, Grid Engine Analysis & Reporting Console ("ARCo"), Ganglia, central monitoring console and (incredibly) a fully operational Globus grid computing infrastructure. It itself is fully open-sourced.