Grid Engine Migration
Why use Just the Engine, get the Full Car
Limited Time Migration Offer
Grid Engine users act now!
Limited Time Migration Offer
Platform Computing is currently offering a special promotion for Grid Engine users, which is designed to help customers transition smoothly from Grid Engine to Platform Computing products and save money:
- Discount License Pricing – Special license pricing is available for both Platform LSF and Platform HPC for current Grid Engine users.
- Migration Support/Services from the HPC Experts – Specially priced migration services including an assessment of customers’ existing Grid Engine environment, LSF installation and configuration and training.
- Free Product Downloads – Free product downloads are available for Platform LSF and Platform HPC. Trial licenses are backed with full support from Platform Computing. This special promotion is only valid through Sept 30, 2011. Terms and Conditions Apply. Act now!
Platform Computing provides complete,cost-effective HPC management products

Customer benefits for migrating
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Features & Benefits At A Glance
| Platform HPC | Grid Engine | ||
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Cluster Management and Provisioning | Initial cluster provisioning | √ | |
Multiple provisioning methods | √ | ||
Web-based cluster management | √ | ||
Node updates with no re-boot | √ | ||
Repository snapshots | √ | ||
Flexible node templates | √ | ||
Multiple OS and OS versions | √ | ||
Workload Management & | Integrated workload management | √ | √ |
HPC libraries & toolsets | √ | ||
NVIDIA CUDA SDK support | √ | Requires add-on | |
Web-based job management | √ | √ | |
Web-based job data management | √ | ||
Multi-boot based on workload | √ | ||
Advanced parallel job management | √ | ||
Commercial application integrations | √ | Limited | |
MPI Libraries | Commercial grade MPI | √ | |
Workload and System Monitoring, Reporting, & Correlation | Workload monitoring | √ | √ |
Workload reporting | √ | √ | |
System monitoring & reporting | √ | ||
Workload and system load correlation | √ |
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