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Pratt & Whitney (www.prattwhitney.com) is the world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. They began working with Platform CEO Dr. Songnian Zhou in 1992. Back in the day, Pratt & Whitney had created a grid computing system for fluid dynamics. The system had worked well, but as it grew, it became impossible to effectively search for suitable computers to meet the demand. Platform LSF seemed like the ideal solution - a distributed resource manager that was fault tolerant and could scale.
"Platform's potential was clear, since there were hundreds of companies that could benefit from similar approaches," said Pete Bradley, Associate Fellow, High Intensity Computing, Pratt & Whitney. "Other Pratt & Whitney organizations soon found ways to leverage LSF. The Engine Performance group ran thousands of independent engine simulations every day. Even when they were still using the mainframe for most work, they found they could run their simulations on a cluster of four workstations with faster turnaround, reduced mainframe costs, and zero impact to the software development team."
Today, Pratt & Whitney uses LSF in clusters for structural analysis, engineering simulations, and manufacturing engineering. Pratt & Whitney 's grid computing system is now on Windows™, where LSF continues to be the core resource manager. The need will continue to grow - additional sites; additional disciplines and applications.
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