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Industry Solutions

Deployed across thousands of sites
and millions of CPUs

Platform Products Overview

Businesses and IT stakeholders in all industries that Platform serves continue to build larger, faster, more effective diversified High Performance Computing, grid and cloud infrastructures. They are on-boarding an ever-more array of applications onto this compute infrastructure that is pushing the envelope of what was traditionally considered suitable for HPC or the grid.

We work closely with customers in many industries to understand their specific requirements and develop solutions that fit those needs. Both on the individual industry pages and on the solutions pages, you will find proven technology that our customers have deployed across thousands of sites and millions of CPUs. Read on to see how Platform Computing can help your data center improve performance, reduce costs, and become more efficient and effective in supporting business goals.

Manufacturing & Commercial

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Manufacturing

Computationally Intensive Simulations, Crash & Occupant Safety, Computational Fluid Dynamics, NVH, Aerodynamics, Durability, Mechtronic  Design, Engineering Process & Product Data Management, Remote Visualization, Materials Engineering

 

Electronics / Software design

Electronics Design Automation, Electronic Circuit Design, Software Development/QA

 

Oil & Gas

3-D Visualization, Reservoir Simulation, Seismic Processing, Downstream Chemical & Mechanical Engineering Applications

 

Life Sciences

Human Genome Sequencing, QCD Simulations, Therapeutic Drug Design

 

Media / Digital Content Creation

Animation, Simulation, Rendering

  • Pratt & Whitney – 50%+ reduction in product design cycle, 60% reduction in product development cost
  • ARM – 20% reduction in capital expenditure on hardware & software licenses
  • StatoilHydro – global access for 24/7 reservoir simulation
  • The Sanger Institute – finished human genome sequencing 2 years ahead of schedule
  • Major Hollywood Studio – running at 97%+ overnight grid utilization
  • Red Bull – 20%+ increase in throughput
  • Magna Steyr – 95% reduction in clash test run times

Solutions for Industrial Manufacturing

 

Platform HPC: Focus on Science, not Computer Science with the easiest and most complete HPC cluster soltution

 

Reducing the Product Development Cycle by Right-Sizing CAE


Data Synchronization Across Enterprise Grids


HPC Management Software for the Oil & Gas Industry


Enterprise Desktop Grid Computing in Bioinformatics


Online Gaming

Financial Services

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Actuarial Analysis, Commodity Pricing, Converts Pricing, Counterparty Credit Risk, Credit Derivatives Pricing, Currency Exchange, Derivatives Pricing, Enterprise Market Risk, Fraud Detection, FX Derivatives Pricing, Hedging, Insurance Claims Processing, Mortgage Loan Analytics, Operational Risk, Portfolio Optimization, Risk Analysis, Risk Management

  • Citigroup – drives utilization from 20% to 80%+
  • LBBW – 80% reduction in simulation run times
  • JPMC – shares 20+ applications in a single compute environment

 

Basel III: Credit & Liquidity Risk Management


Impact of Regulations on Risk and Trading Analytics in Capital Markets


Big Data Matters: Why Financial Services Firms Need Platform MapReduce Now

ROI of Utility Computing


Platform Computing Solutions for Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM)


Algorithmics and Platform Computing Solution for Financial Markets

Public Sector & Education

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Electromagnetic simulations, Finite Element Analysis, Micro-scale Optics, Simulation, QCD Simulations, Visualization/Image Analysis, Climate Modeling, Weather Forecast

  • EBI – is able to handle annual doubling of data on grid
  • University of Oklahoma – 100s of applications comfortably share one compute environment
  • CERN – helped reconstruct the Big Bang

HPC Management Software for Government, Research and Education

HPC Academic


Platform HPC Workgroup Manager Whitepaper


Platform Cluster Manager Whitepaper