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Platform Computing

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2009

  
  • Platform Computing Launches Platform Symphony 5
  • Platform Computing Acquires MPI Product from HP
  • Singapore’s Grid Service Provider Deploys Platform Computing
  • Platform Computing Announces Private Cloud Management Software
  • Platform Computing Launches New Cluster Management Solution
  • International Monetary Fund Selects Platform Computing
  • Platform Computing Opens Cloud Computing Innovation Centre in Singapore
    

2008

  
  • Platform and Red Bull Technology named to the InfoWorld 100 Awards
  • Platform launches joint products with Dell and Red Hat
  • Platform launches Platform VM Orchestrator (VMO) 4
  • Platform shortlisted in the Computing Excellence in IT Awards for Private Sector Project of the Year
  • Platform Acquires Scali MPI
  • Platform rated among top ten in Branham 300’s Top 25 Canadian Software Companies
  • Platform hosts Platform Global Conference in San Jose in May with environmental advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the keynote speaker
  • Platform partnership with Red Bull Racing Formula One team races forward with HPC
  • Platform establishes Financial Services Business Unit
  • Platform achieved record revenue for its fiscal year ending March 2008.  The self-funded software company builds on 15 years of continuous profitable growth
  • Platform launches Financial Services solution for Cell-Based IBM BladeCenter
    

2007

  
  • Platform acquires Scali Manage
  • Platform and Red Hat collaborate to deliver integrated HPC solution
  • Platform launches Symphony 4 for Financial Services
  • Platform Selected for Linux Magazine’s “20 Companies to Watch in 2007”
  • Platform wins energy trader Gaselys
    

2006

  
  • Platform’s software is first enterprise HPC solution to earn Common Criteria Certification
  • Platform introduces first HPC product to address broad engineering market of Product Lifecycle Management
  • Platform introduces Platform Open Cluster Stack  to accelerate Linux cluster adoption
  • Platform continues HPC technology leadership with Platform LSF 7
    

2005

  
  • Platform wins 'ROI of the Year' award at The Banker Technology Awards in the UK
  • Platform wins BNP Paribas Arbitrage – Equity and Derivatives division
    

2004

  
  • Platform launches Symphony for Financial Services
  • Platform launches Platform Open Cluster Stack for Linux Cluster Market*
  • Platform wins Siemens Mobile, NCAR
    

2003

  
  • Platform integrates job flow automation
  • Platform partners with Oracle & Microsoft
  • Platform wins BMS & Societe General
    

2002

  
  • Platform first to commercialize Globus Toolkit
  • Platform partners with Dell, SGI & NEC
  • Platform wins Merck, Incyte & ARM
    
 

2001

  
  • Platform adds online workload management (Platform Symphony)
  • Platform partners with SAS on Platform Job Scheduler for SAS
  • IBM, HP define their Grid computing vision
  • Platform partners with Globus, IBM,  EDS, IGS, CGEY & Compaq/HP
  • Platform wins JPMC & NVIDIA
    

2000

  
  • Platform adds Platform Analytics
  • Platform wins Daimler Chrysler
    

1999

  
  • Global Grid Forum (GGF) created
  • SETI@home program launched
  • Platform wins NASA, Celera, Sanger, TD Bank & Deutsche Bank
    

1998

  
  • Platform signs first grid ISV - Silicon Graphics
    

1997

  
  • Platform adds reporting capabilities to product line up
  • Platform wins General Motors, Audi & BMW
    

1996

  
  • Platform extends Platform LSF to multiple clusters, enabling global shared resources
  • Platform wins Shell, BP & SUN
    

1995

  
  • Foster/Tueke begin work on I-WAY at USC
  • Platform partners with HP for computer cluster workload management solutions
  • Platform wins Monsanto & Pfizer
    

1994

  
  • Platform wins AMD, Texas Instruments
    

1993

  
  • Platform wins DOD, DOE/LANL
    

1992

  
  • Platform Computing founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Platform commercializes Platform LSF for batch workload management
  • Platform wins Nortel, Pratt & Whitney
  • Seminar paper co-authored with co-founder Dr. Jingwen Wang, “UTOPIA: Load Sharing in Larger Heterogeneous Distributed Systems” in the journal - Software: Practice and Experience
  • Released Platform LSF V1.0
    

1987

  
  • Songnian Zhou Ph.D. Thesis “Dynamic Load Sharing in Distributed Computing Systems published at UC Berkeley

*This product includes software developed by the Rocks Cluster Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego and its contributors.