Platform Computing

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Platform Computing
Type Private
Founded Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1992)
Headquarters Markham, Ontario, Canada
Key people Leadership team
Industry Distributed computing, Grid computing, Computer software
Products LSF, Symphony, Open Cluster Stack 5.0, Platform Manager
Revenue Image:red down.png$44.90 million USD (2007)[1]
Employees 400 (2007)[1]
Website www.platform.com

Platform Computing is a privately held software company that is primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing Facility (LSF). It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is currently headquartered in Markham, Ontario with several local offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.

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[edit] History

Platform Computing was founded by Songnian Zhou, Jingwen Wang, and Bing Wu in 1992 [2]. Its first product, LSF, was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto [3]. The LSF software was developed partially with funding from CANARIE (Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education) [4].

Platform's revenue was approximately $300,000 in 1993, and reached $12 million in 1997. Revenue grew by 34% (YoY) to US$46.2 million in 2001.

On October 29, 2007, Platform Computing acquired the Scali Manage business from Massachusetts-based Scali Inc. This acquisition added a more complex cluster management solution to Platform's software offerings. [5].

[edit] Products

In addition to its open source solution, OCS 5, Platform's major products are divided into two separate suites

Accelerate

  • Platform LSF
  • Platform Symphony
  • Platform EGO
  • Platform Process Manager
  • Platform LSF License Scheduler
  • Platform LSF Session Scheduler
  • Platform LSF MultiCluster
  • EnginFrame

Manage

  • Platform Manager
  • Platform RTM
  • Platform Analytics
  • Platform VM Orchestrator

[edit] Memberships

Platform Computing is a member of the following organizations:

[edit] Standards

Platform products have adopted the following standards:

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Platform Computing Inc. Company Profile. Yahoo Business. Retrieved on 2007-12-18.
  2. ^ GridConnections. OGF. Retrieved on 2007-12-29.
  3. ^ Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems. John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved on 2007-12-29.
  4. ^ Shaping the future: success stories from the CARARIE files. CANARIE. Retrieved on 2007-12-29.
  5. ^ Platform Computing Acquires Scali Manage Business. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
  • Open Cluster Stack 5.0 is not based on SDSC/NPACI Source code.

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