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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, Distributed computing, Grid computing, Computer software |
| Founded | Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1992) |
| Headquarters | Markham, Ontario, Canada |
| Key people | Leadership team |
| Products | Platform ISF, Platform LSF, Platform Symphony, Platform Cluster Manager, Platform Manager, Platform MPI |
| Revenue |  $71.6 million USD (2010) |
| Number of employees | 530 |
| 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 11 branch offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.
In Oct 2011, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.
History
Platform Computing was founded by Songnian Zhou, Jingwen Wang, and Bing Wu in 1992 . Its first product, LSF, was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto . The LSF software was developed partially with funding from CANARIE (Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education).
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, US$50 million in 2003.
On October 29, 2007, Platform Computing acquired the Scali Manage business from Norway-based Scali AS. This acquisition added a more complex cluster management solution to Platform's software offerings. On August 1, 2008, Platform acquired the rest of the Scali business, taking on the industry-standard Message Passing Interface (MPI), Scali MPI, and rebranding it Platform MPI.
On June 22, 2009, Platform Computing announced its first piece of software to serve the cloud computing space. Platform ISF is software that enables organizations to set up and manage private clouds, controlling both physical and virtual resources, and supporting a wide variety of hardware and OS configurations..
In August 2009, Platform acquired HP-MPI from Hewlett-Packard.
On Oct. 11, 2011, IBM announced their intention to buy Platform Computing.
Products
Platform Computing has a wide range of software products and solutions including .
- Platform ISF (Infrastructure Sharing Facility) - Management software for building private IaaS clouds
- Platform LSF (Load Sharing Facility) - Platform's workload management software for clusters and supercomputers
- Platform Symphony
- Platform Process Manager - workflow management
- Platform LSF License Scheduler
- Platform LSF Session Scheduler
- Platform LSF MultiCluster
- Platform Cluster Manager
- Platform MPI - Message Passing Interface library
- Platform Manager
- Platform RTM
- Platform Analytics
- Platform VM Orchestrator
- Platform Enterprise Grid Orchestrator
- Platform MapReduce (uses Platform's job scheduler with rest of the Apache Hadoop stack)
Partnerships
Platform Computing has partnerships with over 100 companies and industry leaders, including:
Open-source participation
- Hadoop - Platform joined the Hadoop project in 2011, and is focused on enhancing the Hadoop Distributed File System
- Platform Lava - based on Platform LSF, licensed under GPLv2. The Lava scheduler is part of Red Hat HPC.
- Platform FTA - File Transfer Agent for HPC clusters
- Nagios Plug-ins
- Community Scheduler Framework - a meta-scheduling framework
Memberships
Platform Computing is a member of the following organizations:
Standards
Platform products have adopted the following standards:
- DRMAA
- Intel Cluster Ready
- HPC Profile
- JSDL
- Open MPI
- Project Kusu, the basis for the Platform Cluster Manager
See also
- High Performance Computing
- Distributed computing
- Cloud computing
- Computational grid
- CPU scavenging
- Grid computing
- Beowulf (computing)
- Job schedulers
References
- "2011 Branham300 Online - Platform Computing Details". Retrieved 2011-04-05.
- "Platform Computing Inc. Corporate Facts". Retrieved 2011-04-03.
- Contact
- IBM to acquire Platform Computing
- IBM to Acquire System Software Company Platform Computing to Extend Reach of Technical Computing
- "GridConnections" (PDF). OGF. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
- "Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems". John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved 2007-12-29.
- "Shaping the future: success stories from the CARARIE files" (PDF). CANARIE. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
- "Platform Computing Inc. Company Profile". Yahoo Business. Archived from the original on 2005-09-27. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
- "Platform Computing Acquires Scali Manage Business" (Press release). Platform Computing. 2008-10-02.
- "Platform Computing Acquires Scali MPI Business" (Press release). Platform Computing. August 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
- "Platform Computing announces private cloud management software". Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- Platform Computing Acquires MPI Product from HP
- http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-10-12/ibm_makes_bet_on_distributed_computing_with_platform_buy.html?featured=top
- "Products - Platform Computing". Retrieved 2009-05-22.
- Platform MapReduce
- Partners Directory
- Platform Computing Announces Commercial Support for Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- Platform Lava
- Red Hat HPC Solution
- platform opensource
- Systems Management
- http://grid1.jlu.edu.cn/csf
External links
- Platform.com The Official Website for Platform Computing HPC Management Software
- User forum
- Platform Computing user portal for downloads and commercial support