TORONTO, CANADA, June 5, 2007 – Platform Computing,
the leading cluster and grid systems infrastructure software company,
today announced LSF 7.0.1, the latest version of its workload
management software. LSF 7.0.1 simplifies the job of LSF administrators
by providing tools that enable more informed decision-making, fueling
business and application performance by optimizing existing resource
infrastructure.
With LSF 7.0.1, enhancements have been made in three key areas:
manageability, scheduling, and add-on features. LSF 7.0.1 includes
improved IT resource asset inventory management as well as an increased
ability to track key performance metrics, allowing the administrator
greater visibility into the scheduler operation. Platform Management
Console is a new patch installer that enables 7.0.1 to be upgraded or
applied as a patch to an existing 7.0 cluster, checking patch
dependencies and providing roll back. Scheduling enhancements include a
distributed application framework offering a simple and transparent
method for running parallel and distributed applications. Absolute
priority scheduling allows workload to be ordered and scheduled based
on absolute priority rather than a priority relative to the queue of
the current job, providing a highly configurable method that combines
fairshare with priority escalation.
In addition, add-on features in LSF Desktop Server, LSF License
Scheduler and LSF Analytics have been added to further complement LSF.
LSF Desktop Server now supports a new high-availability cluster
configuration, including integration with Platform EGO for service
management. LSF License Scheduler includes an extended Wide Area
Network (WAN) license support, facilitating awareness of physical
locality and restrictions of licenses and compute resources when
selecting the most appropriate application license tokens. LSF
Analytics provides end-to-end collection, extraction, correlation, and
visualization of large volumes of data from multiple sites worldwide,
giving users performance information and a business-oriented view of
enterprise-wide resource infrastructure utilization.
"Platform continues to strive for innovation and leadership in
providing continual improvements for our customers," said Ashar Baig,
Product Marketing Manager, LSF Family of Products, Platform Computing.
"With these improvements in manageability, scheduling, and add-on
features, LSF continues to lead the industry as the most powerful and
intelligent policy-driven application workload manager for distributed
computing environments."
About Platform Computing
Platform Computing is the leading systems infrastructure software
company that accelerates applications and delivers IT agility for
increased business performance and reduced cost. Founded in 1992,
Platform is a pioneer in HPC, Cluster and Grid Computing technologies.
Platform has over 2,000 global customers and strategic relationships
with Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat and SAS, along with the
industry's broadest support for third-party applications. Visit
www.platform.com.
