Platform revamps grid control tools, GPUs, I am your master'
Grid computing pioneer Platform Computing is taking the wraps off an updated and more integrated edition of its cluster management tools for small and mid-sized clusters, days ahead of the SC10 supercomputing conference in New Orleans.
Platform HPC 2.1 is based on the Load Sharing Facility workload scheduler that first came to market in 1992 and that is arguably the first decent commercial-grade tool for playing traffic cop on HPC clusters as jobs jockey for resources. Platform HPC is based on a more recent version of LSF Workgroup Edition, of course, and also includes Cluster Manager (formerly known as Open Cluster Stack 5), and a message-passing interface (MPI) parallel computing stack that includes MPI code that Platform acquired separately from Scali and Hewlett-Packard.
