Designed for LSF customers, Platform LSF supports Apache Hadoop MapReduce. Platform LSF runs the open source MapReduce framework on a computational distributed system based on Platform LSF workload scheduler in order to provide enterprise-class services.

Platform LSF enterprise-class capabilities include the ability to scale to thousands of cores per Hadoop MapReduce application, to perform at very high execution rates, to offer IT manageability and monitoring while controlling workload policies for multiple lines of business users. It has built-in high availability services to ensure the necessary quality of service.

There are three main areas where Platform technologies can play a role in making Hadoop enterprise ready: ensuring the reliability of the system, enhancing the visibility into what is going on in the system, and providing capability to get the most out of a shared Hadoop environment through policy and workload management.