computing high performance computing distributed computing grid computing computer software successor ibm founded toronto ontario canada 1992 headquarters markham ontario canada key people leadership team products platform isf platform lsf platform symphony platform cluster manager platform manager platform mpi revenue 71.6 million usd 2010 1 number of employees 530 2 website www.platform.com platform computing was a privately held software company primarily known for its job scheduling product load sharing facility lsf . it was founded in 1992 in toronto ontario canada and headquartered in markham ontario with 11 branch offices across the united states europe and asia . 3 in january 2012 platform computing was acquired by ibm . 4 contents 1 history 2 open source participation 3 memberships 4 standards 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit platform headquarters in canada . platform computing was founded by songnian zhou jingwen wang and bing wu in 1992 . 5 its first product lsf was based on the utopia research project at the university of toronto . 6 the lsf software was developed partially with funding from canarie canadian advanced network and research for industry and education . 7 platform s revenue was approximately 300 000 in 1993 and reached 12 million in 1997 . revenue grew by 34 % yoy to us 46.2 million in 2001 us 50 million in 2003 . 8 on october 29 2007 platform computing acquired the scali manage business from norway based scali as . scali was cluster management software . 9 on august 1 2008 platform acquired the rest of the scali business taking on the industry standard message passing interface mpi scali mpi and rebranding it platform mpi . 10 on june 22 2009 platform computing announced its first software to serve the cloud computing space . platform isf enables organizations to set up and manage private clouds controlling both physical and virtual resources . 11 in august 2009 platform acquired hp mpi from hewlett packard . 12 in january 2012 platform computing was acquired by ibm . 13 open source participation edit platform joined the hadoop project in 2011 and is focused on enhancing the hadoop distributed file system 14 platform lava based on platform lsf licensed under gplv2 . 15 the lava scheduler is part of red hat hpc . 16 discontinued in 2011 . openlava successor to platform lava . platform fta file transfer agent for hpc clusters 17 nagios plug ins 18 community scheduler framework a meta scheduling framework 19 memberships edit platform computing is a member of the following organizations the green grid open grid forum standards edit platform products adopted the following standards drmaa intel cluster ready hpc profile jsdl open mpi project kusu the basis for the platform cluster manager see also edit computational grid cpu scavenging beowulf computing job schedulers references edit 2011 branham300 online platform computing details . retrieved 2011 04 05 . platform computing inc. corporate facts . retrieved 2011 04 03 . contact ibm closes on acquisition of platform computing gridconnections pdf . ogf . retrieved 2007 12 29 . utopia a load sharing facility for large heterogeneous distributed computer systems . john wiley & sons . retrieved 2007 12 29 . shaping the future success stories from the cararie files pdf . canarie . archived from the original on july 20 2004 . retrieved 2011 04 05 . cs1 maint unfit url link platform computing inc. company profile . yahoo business . archived from the original on 2005 09 27 . retrieved 2008 10 02 . platform computing acquires scali manage business press release . platform computing . 2008 10 02 . archived from the original on october 7 2008 . platform computing acquires scali mpi business press release . platform computing . august 1 2008 . retrieved 2008 10 02 . platform computing announces private cloud management software . retrieved 2009 06 26 . platform computing acquires mpi product from hp ibm closes on acquisition of platform computing platform computing announces commercial support for apache hadoop distributed file system hdfs platform lava red hat hpc solution platform opensource systems management http grid1.jlu.edu.cn csf external links edit platform.com the official website for platform computing hpc management software user forum platform computing user portal for downloads and commercial support retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title platform computing & oldid 738083216 categories software companies of canadacompanies established in 1992ibm acquisitionshidden categories cs1 maint unfit url navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial 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