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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 Computing's Software is first Enterprise Grid Solution to earn Common Criteria Certification
  • Platform introduces first grid product to address broad engineering market of Product Lifecycle Management
  • Platform Computing Introduces Platform Open Cluster Stack to Accelerate Linux Cluster Adoption
  • Platform Computing Continues Grid Technology Leadership with LSF 7
       

2005

   
  • Platform wins 'ROI of the Year' award at The Banker Technology Awards in the UK
       

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.