Platform LSF allows you to manage and accelerate batch workload processing for mission-critical compute- or data-intensive application workload. With Platform LSF you can intelligently schedule and guarantee the completion of batch workload across your distributed, virtualized, High Performance Computing (HPC) environment.

No matter the industry, Platform LSF increases the utilization of existing hardware resources. Chip designers run more design verifications. Automotive engineers use virtual product development techniques to limit physical testing. Government researchers accelerate large, complex, grand challenge computations. Resource engineers acquire, process, analyze and interpret data to speed time to production.

Benefits of Platform LSF:

• Maximum utilization and optimal allocation of existing IT infrastructure ensures more work is done with fewer resources, reducing administration costs and future hardware expenditures.
• Improved user productivity for designers, researchers and scientists enables them to run more jobs, significantly reducing the time to market (TTM) for new products
• Faster time to higher quality and reliable results allows you to develop better, faster and cheaper product designs
• Reduced operational & infrastructure costs lower total cost of ownership (TCO), while improving the return on IT investments by enabling IT to improve service

You should consider Platform LSF if:

• Your business requires the most advanced high-performance, flexible, scalable HPC infrastructure tools to take maximum advantage of modern multi-core and multi-threaded architectures with advanced new scheduling controls for both sequential and parallel jobs
• You require better controls over distributed and parallel jobs, need to manipulate complex job dependencies, need to track and schedule work against inventory/asset information, or want to simplify interfaces for end-users

Selected facts about Platform LSF:

• Many administrative facilities may be delegated to departmental users allowing administrators to be more responsive to the needs of users while reducing administrator workload and encouraging the sharing of assets
• Proven to work in heterogeneous IT environments utilizing all IT infrastructure resources regardless of operating system – including desktops, servers and mainframes – or the architecture – support for 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems, and multi-core CPU architectures
• The industry’s most comprehensive set of intelligent scheduling policies including Fairshare, Preemption, Application Encapsulation, Advance Reservation, Resource Reservation and Service Level Agreement (SLA) based scheduling
• Advanced self-management with self-healing and self-adaptive capabilities – failover to the nth node
• Dynamically re-sizable jobs and run-times estimates allow jobs to start sooner and run faster taking maximum advantage of available resources
• Extensive application support
• Comprehensive, extensible and standards-based security