Grid computing software maker Platform Computing has goosed its low-latency Symphony financial grid as well as some add-ons to its Load Sharing Facility (LSF) gridding wares for more traditional HPC parallel cluster grids.

Platform Symphony 5.1 may not have been giving a new release number, but it includes some important features that could arguably justify having given it the 6 moniker. "It is not a major release, but a significant one," Ken Hertzler, vice president of product management at the company, tells El Reg.

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