TORONTO, CANADA, May 30, 2007 – Platform Computing
today announced an update to its Symphony 3.1 software, a high
performance, low overhead, high scalability solution for grid computing
in the financial services market. Symphony 3.1 allows customers to
build a grid scalable up to 4,000 CPUs per application while reducing
latency and ensuring optimal utilization.
Symphony was tested on Windows, Linux, and Solaris systems and was
validated to support in excess of 20,000 CPUs. For a single parallel
application scaling up to 1,000 CPUs, Symphony achieved a utilization
rate of more than 97% and task latency of 2.4 milliseconds. Symphony
has demonstrated extremely high throughput with 2,000 concurrent
clients running 100-grid enabled applications and offers real real-time
application support. Symphony’s industry leading scalability and
performance ensures that a customer’s IT environment will dynamically
grow alongside its business.
At the time of its initial release last February, Symphony 3.1
supported 2,000 CPUs per application. Responding to a demand for
increased scalability from Platform’s customers, this update will
provide greater grid performance when running complex credit risk
software. No product changes were required to support the increased
applications capability, which is more than double the size of
competitors’ CPU capability. Since its initial release, independent
software vendors (ISVs) and customers who have migrated to Symphony
have seen immediate business returns.
"This update solidifies the leading-edge low latency and flexible
computing for which Symphony is best known," said Martin Harris, Senior
Product Manager, of Platform Computing. "For financial institutions,
optimal utilization is paramount. By increasing our CPU capability with
this new update, Platform has assured our financial services customers
that their investment is well-allocated and well-protected."
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. For more
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