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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud computing, High performance computing, Distributed computing, Grid computing, Computer software |
| Founded | Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1992) |
| Successor | IBM |
| 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 Jan 2012, 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
IBM Platform Computing has a wide range of software products and solutions including .
IBM® Platform™ LSF® is a powerful workload management platform for demanding, distributed HPC environments. It provides a comprehensive set of intelligent, policy-driven scheduling features that enable you to utilize all of your compute infrastructure resources and ensure optimal application performance.
IBM® Platform™ HPC is a complete high performance computing management solution in a single product. It includes a range of out-of the-box cluster and workload management features designed to help reduce the complexity of your HPC environment and improve your time-to-results.
IBM® Platform™ Symphony software delivers powerful enterprise-class management for running compute and data intensive distributed applications on a scalable, shared grid. It accelerates dozens of parallel applications, for faster results and better utilization of all available resources.
IBM® Platform™ MPI is a high performing implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) designed to accelerate applications in distributed computing environments. Platform MPI a wide range of industry standard platforms, interconnects and operating systems to help you improve the quality of results, reduce cost and improve productivity.
IBM® Platform™ Cluster Manager enables administrators to quickly and easily provision, manage and monitor HPC clusters and clouds through an intuitive web-based interface. A broad range of capabilities support diverse client environments – from simplifying management of a single departmental cluster through automated self-service creation and provisioning of secure HPC cloud environments for use by multiple tenants.
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
References
- "2011 Branham300 Online - Platform Computing Details". Retrieved 2011-04-05.
- "Platform Computing Inc. Corporate Facts". Retrieved 2011-04-03.
- Contact
- IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform 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.
- 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