Platform Computing
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Distributed computing, Grid computing, Computer software |
| Founded | Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1992) |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Key people | Leadership team |
| Products | LSF |
| Revenue |  $50 million USD (2003) |
Number of employees | 350 (2005) |
| Website | www.platform.com |
Platform Computing is a system infrastructure software company that enables enterprises to accelerate IT applications for improved business performance and reduced cost. Founded in 1992, Platform is a pioneer in HPC, Cluster and Grid Computing technologies. Platform has over 2000 global customers and strategic relationships with Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat and SAS, along with the industry's broadest support for third-party applications.
Products
Platform LSF Family of products is a very powerful, full function, intelligent, policy-driven batch application workload processing manager for distributed computing environments.
Platform Symphony is grid software that enables organizations to solve mission critical compute intense problems in real-time, delivering faster business results and competitive advantage.
Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO) is an infrastructure platform that delivers a shared virtualized pool of IT resources to meet the demand of multiple application types based on business policies.
Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) is a pre-integrated, vendor certified, software stack that enables the consistent delivery of scale-out application clusters. Platform OCS enables a new class of users by simplifying Linux cluster application, deployment and management. Platform OCS is a modular and hybrid stack that transparently integrates open source and commercial software into a single consistent cluster operating environment.
Platform VM Orchestrator (VMO) is an automated, policy-driven virtual environment manager that optimizes capacity utilization with precision by dynamically balancing and controlling the allocation of virtual server resources in real- time according to a broad range of service level policies.
See also
- Distributed computing
- Computational grid
- CPU scavenging
- Grid computing
- Beowulf (computing)
- Job schedulers
External links
- http://www.platform.com/
- http://www.platformusers.net/ user forum operated by Platform
- LinuxHPC.org Linux High Performance Computing and Clustering Portal
- WinHPC.org Windows High Performance Computing and Clustering Portal
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