Red Hat HPC Solution
Built on Platform OCS 5 and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, the Red Hat HPC Solution is a complete, fully integrated cluster solution that includes a complete range of tools necessary to simply deploy, run and manage a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster in one easy-to-install package.
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Platform OCS – Dell™ Edition
Platform works closely with Dell to ensure Platform OCS – Dell Edition contains all of the software tools necessary to easily build a complete Linux cluster and goes that extra step by ensuring that they are optimized to run on Dell solutions. This complete solution provides it all: the operating system, device drivers, simple cluster installer, cluster management tools, resource and application monitor, interconnect support and a powerful open source job scheduler Platform Lava, that is necessary for efficiently running HPC applications in a cluster environment.
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2 minute Demos:
Clusters Made Simple with Platform OCS 5
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Platform Symphony 4 for the IBM BladeCenter® QS22
Unleashing the Power of Cell Broadband Engine™ Technology
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Windows HPC Server 2008
Windows® HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores with out-of-the-box functionality to help improve productivity and reduce complexity of your HPC environment. Microsoft and Platform Computing have joined forces to provide an affordable, scalable, and easy-to-implement High Performance Computing (HPC) solution.
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Platform VM Orchestrator (VMO) 4
Product Page
Press Release
Grid Computing Planet Article

Platform LSF 7 Update 4
Platform LSF
Platform LSF Session Scheduler

Platform Symphony Problem Description: When two sessions are running in the grid, how to let one session get more slots than another? Example: A job consisting of 550 tasks is submitted and 500 slots are available, therefore 500 tasks are running and 50 are pending. If another job is submitted consisting of 50 tasks, is it possible for the tasks from the second job to be prioritized above the outstanding 50 tasks from the 1st job? Also, is it possible to prioritize submitted and pending jobs within the GRID? Solution Details: Symphony has an innate concept of session priorities. To change the priority of any running session through the GUI, just navigate to the page that lists the running jobs. In the "Actions" menu for the particular job, there is a "Change Priority" entry that you can use for this purpose. So for the example above, after the second job is submitted, you can increase its priority to e.g. 100 and this will ensure that any slots that become available are assigned to this shorter job instead of the big one. Priority slot assignment is relative, so e.g. if you have two sessions A and B with priorities 1 and 100, then session B will get 100 slots for every slot that A gets.

	Platform Manager Where can I download the Platform Manager GUI for Windows? You can log on to http://my.platform.com Under the 'Products' tag you need to click on 'Platform Manager' and select the 'Platform Manager 5.7.0 (formerly known as Scali Manage)' version. Under 'Download', click on 'Product Package'. You will see the link to download the Windows version of PM GUI.

Platform LSF Are there any restrictions on termination reasons displayed by bacct? If a queue-level JOB_CONTROL is configured, we cannot tell what would be the result of the action. In this case, termination reason only reflects from Platform LSF side what the termination reason could be. Platform LSF cannot be guaranteed to catch any external signals sent directly to the job. In MultiCluster, a brequeue request sent from the submission cluster is translated to TERM_OWNER or TERM_ADMIN in the remote execution cluster. The termination reason in the email notification sent from the execution cluster as well as that in the lsb.acct is set to TERM_OWNER or TERM_ADMIN.

	August 20, 2008 | eWeek Podcast Getting a Handle on High-Performance Computing view >>

	June 18, 2008 | Financial Times Cartoon Stars are Hungry for Power view >>

	June 17, 2008 | Grid Computing Planet Platform Computing, GemStone Boost Financial Apps view >>

	April 8, 2008 Platform for Success view >>

Thank you Platform Partners for making PGC08 a tremendous success.

In May Platform Computing hosted over 260 customers, partners, media, analysts and guests at PGC08 in Santa Clara, California. The event was an opportunity for Platform to reaffirm its leadership in the industry. The theme of this year’s event was Showcasing Leadership in HPC which demonstrated Platform’s commitment to being our customers’ partner of choice for managing HPC systems and increasing application throughput and performance. PGC08 was the place to discuss, share, learn and exchange ideas.

Partnership participation was the key to the success of PGC08 from investment through sponsorships to providing a powerful vehicle to showcase products and provide customers with learning opportunities. The exhibit hall featured over 20 partners demonstrating their products, solutions and services to attendees.

A record number of sponsors participated in the event, including:

Diamond sponsor: Microsoft®
Gold sponsors: IBM®, HP®, SAS®, Del™l and Red Hat®
Exhibit sponsors: QLogic®, NICE, Intel®, QulC® and AMD
Pavilion exhibitors: GemStone®, Mellanox®, Librato™, Open Grid Forum (OGF), Synopsys®, MCS Software®, Voltaire™

PGC08 PRESENTATIONS

Fermat and Platform Computing Partner to Optimize Risk Management Processes
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Platform Computing Acquires Scali MPI Business
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Platform Computing Announces GemFire for Platform Symphony
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Platform OCS - Dell Edition
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HPC Management Software: Reducing the Complexity of HPC cluster and Grid Resources
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Platform LSF Session Scheduler
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Platform Symphony 4 - A Performance Update
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MTU Aero MTU Aero Engines keeps priority jobs on track with Platform LSF view >>

Dramatic Acceleration of Excel-based Trading Simulations with Platform and Microsoft
Nov 5, 2008
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Archived Webinar:
Optimizing Cluster Performance When Running Short Jobs
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Archived Webinar:
Making the Most of Multicore
Sponsored by HP, Intel and Platform
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BioMedical HPC Leadership Summit
Harvard Medical School
Oct 5-7, 2008 | Boston, MA
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2008 SIMULIA Michigan Regional Abaqus Users' Meeting
Nov 13, 2008 | Plymouth, MI
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SC08
Nov 15-21, 2008 | Austin, TX
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Sungard Finaz-tag 2008
Oct 22, 2008 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Join the Kusu Community, the technology that Platform OCS 5 was built on www.hpccommunity.org

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Platform Symphony Developers Community

Training is available for Platform products at locations around the world.

Upcoming classes include:

Platform LSF 7.x Configuration & Administration
Boston, USA - Oct 20-24
Toronto, Canada - Nov 17-21
Santa Clara, USA - Dec 8 - 12

Platform Manager 5.x Configuration & Administration
Toronto, Canada - Nov 4 - 6

Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) 4.x Basic Configuration & Administration
Virtual Course Online - Nov 11 - 13

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