Platform Computing was a privately held software company primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing Facility (LSF). It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and headquartered in Markham, Ontario with 11 branch offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.Contact
In January 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing
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.
In 1999, the SiteAssure suite was announced by Platform to address website availability and monitoring market.
On October 29, 2007, Platform Computing acquired the Scali Manage business from Norway-based Scali AS. Scali was cluster management software. 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 software to serve the cloud computing space. Platform ISF (Infrastructure Sharing Facility) enables organizations to set up and manage private clouds, controlling both physical and virtual resources.
In August 2009, Platform acquired HP-MPI from Hewlett-Packard.Platform Computing Acquires MPI Product from HP
In January 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.
Open-source participation Platform joined the Hadoop project in 2011, and is focused on enhancing the Hadoop Distributed File SystemPlatform Computing Announces Commercial Support for Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) Platform Lava - based on Platform LSF, licensed under GPLv2. The Lava scheduler is part of Red Hat HPC. Discontinued in 2011. OpenLava - successor to Platform Lava. Platform FTA - File Transfer Agent for HPC clusters platform opensource Nagios Plug-ins Community Scheduler Framework - a meta-scheduling framework http://grid1.jlu.edu.cn/csf
Memberships Platform Computing is a member of the following organizations: The Green Grid Open Grid Forum
Standards Platform products adopted the following standards: DRMAA Intel Cluster Ready HPC Profile JSDL Open MPI Project Kusu, the basis for the Platform Cluster Manager
See also Computational grid CPU scavenging Beowulf (computing) Job schedulers
References
External links Platform.com The Official Website for Platform Computing HPC Management Software User forum Platform Computing user portal for downloads and commercial support