Parabon, better known for its grid computing technologies, says its Blitz Distributed Testing service uses the thousands of computers on its international grid network to generate a medium-sized DDoS attack on a Web site.

By providing details of how and when its army of IP-connected computers ping/access a given site en-masse, the company says that IT managers can better prepare for an in-the-wild DDoS attack.

According to the company, its grid-based network can launch anywhere between 5,000 and 10,000 pings and/or site accesses, to simulate a real attack.

Parabon's Blitz service was launched at the US Department of Defense's Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) customer partnership conference in Anaheim, California, last month.

Interestingly, the firm says that organisations can also conduct Blitz tests within their own internal networks with Frontier Enterprise - the company's enterprise grid software technology - which uses idle capacity across an organisation's IT systems to drive grid applications.