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词条 Platform Computing
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  1. History

  2. Open-source participation

  3. Memberships

  4. Standards

  5. See also

  6. References

  7. External links

{{Infobox company
| successor = IBM
| name = Platform Computing
| logo = Platform Computer logo.gif
| type = Private |
| foundation = Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1992)
| key_people = Leadership team
| location = Markham, Ontario, Canada
| num_employees = 530 [1]
| industry = Cloud computing, High performance computing, Distributed computing, Grid computing, Computer software
| products = Platform ISF, Platform LSF, Platform Symphony, Platform Cluster Manager, Platform Manager, Platform MPI
| revenue = {{increase}} $71.6 million USD (2010) [2]
| homepage = www.platform.com
}}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.[3]

In January 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.[4]

History

Platform Computing was founded by Songnian Zhou, Jingwen Wang, and Bing Wu in 1992.[5] Its first product, LSF, was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto.[6] The LSF software was developed partially with funding from CANARIE (Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education).[7]

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.[8]

In 1999, the SiteAssure suite was announced by Platform to address website availability and monitoring market. [9]

On October 29, 2007, Platform Computing acquired the Scali Manage business from Norway-based Scali AS. Scali was cluster management software.[10] 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.[11]

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.[12] [13]

In August 2009, Platform acquired HP-MPI from Hewlett-Packard.[14]

In January 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.[15]

Open-source participation

  • Platform joined the Hadoop project in 2011, and is focused on enhancing the Hadoop Distributed File System[16]
  • Platform Lava - based on Platform LSF, licensed under GPLv2.[17] The Lava scheduler is part of Red Hat HPC.[18] Discontinued in 2011.
  • OpenLava - successor to Platform Lava.
  • Platform FTA - File Transfer Agent for HPC clusters [19]
  • Nagios Plug-ins [20]
  • Community Scheduler Framework - a meta-scheduling framework [21]

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

1. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.platform.com/company/corporate-facts |title=Platform Computing Inc. Corporate Facts |accessdate=2011-04-03}}
2. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.branham300.com/details.php?year=2011&company_ID=62 |title=2011 Branham300 Online - Platform Computing Details |accessdate=2011-04-05}}
3. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20111207055026/http://www.platform.com/company/contact-us Contact]
4. ^IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ogf.org/News/documents/ogf_winter_2007.pdf|format=PDF|publisher=OGF|title=GridConnections|accessdate=2007-12-29}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.121.1434|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|title=Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems|accessdate=2007-12-29}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/tadeng.pdf |format=PDF |publisher=CANARIE |title=Shaping the future: success stories from the CARARIE files |accessdate=2011-04-05 |deadurl=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040720151637/http://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/tadeng.pdf |archivedate=July 20, 2004 }}
8. ^{{cite web|archivedate=2005-09-27|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050927230807/http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/107/107204.html|url=http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/107/107204.html|publisher=Yahoo Business|title=Platform Computing Inc. Company Profile|accessdate=2008-10-02}}
9. ^{{cite magazine |last=Connor |first=Deni |date=Nov 8, 1999 |title=the changing face of web site management |url= |magazine=NetworkWorld |location= |publisher= |access-date= }}
10. ^{{cite pressrelease |url= http://www.platform.com/press-releases/2007/platform-computing-acquires-scali-manage-business |publisher=Platform Computing |title=Platform Computing Acquires Scali Manage Business |date=2008-10-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007105733/http://www.platform.com/press-releases/2007/platform-computing-acquires-scali-manage-business |archivedate=October 7, 2008 }}
11. ^{{cite pressrelease|publisher=Platform Computing|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122203607/http://www.platform.com/press-releases/2008/platform-computing-acquires-scali-mpi-business/|title=Platform Computing Acquires Scali MPI Business |date=August 1, 2008|accessdate=2008-10-02}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516185808/http://www.platform.com/press-releases/2009/platform-computing-announces-private-cloud-management-software|title=Platform Computing announces private cloud management software|accessdate=2009-06-26}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/22/platform_goes_cloudy/|title=Platform leaps from grids to clouds|publisher=The Register|publication-date=Jun 22, 2009}}
14. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20090905133936/http://www.platform.com/press-releases/2009/platform-computing-acquires-mpi-product-from-hp Platform Computing Acquires MPI Product from HP]
15. ^IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing
16. ^Platform Computing Announces Commercial Support for Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
17. ^Platform Lava
18. ^Red Hat HPC Solution
19. ^platform opensource
20. ^Systems Management
21. ^http://grid1.jlu.edu.cn/csf {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707024635/http://grid1.jlu.edu.cn/csf/ |date=2011-07-07 }}

External links

  • Platform.com The Official Website for Platform Computing HPC Management Software
  • User forum
  • Platform Computing user portal for downloads and commercial support

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