Grid Computing News : Platform Overhauls HPC Management Strategy

Platform Computing has been busy honing its high-performance computing management strategy with a suite of products aimed at cluster and grid computing environments. The Platform Manage suite includes Platform Manager (formerly known as Scali Manage), Platform RTM, Platform Analytics and Platform VM Orchestrator (VMO). The company's existing suite of products, now called Platform Accelerate, includes Platform LSF and Platform Symphony for accelerating compute and data-intensive applications. Platform says the two suites "comprise the fundamental HPC management software needed by enterprise users to develop and run applications and manage HPC environments." The offerings help customers deploy, administer, track, report, monitor, provision and manage compute resources and applications, the company said, adding that it plans to offer a range of software aimed at industries such as electronics, industrial manufacturing, financial services, life sciences, oil and gas, and government and education. Platform Manage and Platform Accelerate are integrated solutions, but individual products can be adopted separately or in combination to meet customer requirements.... read more