Leader in High Performance Computing
to Support DRMAA within Platform LSF
TORONTO, Canada, December 18, 2007 – Platform
Computing announced a partnership agreement with FedStage Systems for
the distribution of FedStage’s Distributed Resource Management
Application API (DRMAA) for Platform LSF. The FedStage DRMAA
library for LSF is an open source implementation of the Open Grid
Forum’s DRMAA 1.0 specification.
Under the terms of the agreement, FedStage Systems will make the
DRMAA library for LSF available under the Apache 2.0 open source
license. Platform Computing will have the right to distribute and
provide support for this library as part of the LSF family of
products. With the integration of the DRMAA specification into
LSF, customers and developers will be able to take full advantage of a
standardized interface, making it quicker and easier for them to access
and write applications for grid environments, at a lower cost and with
reduced integration times.
“FedStage Systems is dedicated to the wide adoption of emerging open
standards for the HPC industry and has been deeply involved with the
standardization activities of the Open Grid Forum,” said Yasmin Forbes,
Business Director, FedStage Systems. “We look forward to
partnering with Platform Computing to bring these emerging standards to
the market.”
The Platform family of products is the industry’s most powerful and
comprehensive family of HPC infrastructure software solutions.
Platform helps manage and optimize expensive and complex IT
environments, delivering higher IT efficiency, faster time to business
results, dramatically reduced cost of computing and guaranteed service
execution. Platform LSF fully utilizes all IT resources
regardless of operating system, including desktops, servers to ensure
policy-driven, prioritized service levels for reliable access to
resources.
“Platform is committed to making standards-based APIs and interfaces
available to developers who want to integrate their applications with
our products,” said Chris Smith, Principal Product Architect, Platform
Computing and Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum.
“FedStage Systems is a significant player in bringing standards to the
high performance computing industry and providing our ISV partners and
customers the core capabilities necessary for greater
interoperability.”
The library is immediately available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsf-drmaa.
Further information can be found at http://www.fedstage.com/wiki/FedStage_DRMAA_for_LSF.
About FedStage Systems
FedStage Systems provides a broad portfolio of software-as-a-service,
federated computing services Web 2.0 applications and mobile products
designed to meet today’s demanding grid computing and cross-enterprise
IT integration needs. Visit www.fedstage.com.
About Platform Computing
Platform Computing is a pioneer and the global leader in High
Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure software. The company
delivers integrated software solutions that enable organizations to
improve time-to-results and reduce computing costs. Many of the
world’s largest companies rely on Platform for workload management and
cluster and grid management. 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 HPC
applications. Building on 15 years of market leadership, Platform
continues to define the HPC market. Visit www.platform.com.
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