tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44484422601556222622012-01-27T16:57:58.652-05:00Platform Computing is the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software ― serving more than 2,000 of the world’s most demanding organizations. For 18 years, our workload and resource management solutions have delivered IT responsiveness and lower costs for enterprise and HPC applications. Platform has strategic relationships with Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, and SAS. www.platform.comPlatform Computinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13048134250777318462noreply@blogger.comBlogger1511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-78785178320718555542011-11-24T11:45:00.004-05:002011-11-24T11:52:55.674-05:00

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In my previous blog I expressed high expectations for the Big Data-related activities at this year’s Supercomputing conference. Coming back from the show, I’d say the enthusiasm and knowledge on Big Data within the HPC community truly surprised me. Here are the major highlights from the show: Good flow of traffic at the Platform booth for Platform MapReduce. Many visitors stopped by our booth to

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There are many interesting technology showcases at SC’11 this week. One of the Birds of a Feather sessions this week will discuss a solution implemented at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) that mixes Linux with Windows HPC Server in a cluster for processing large amount of data.Without a proper tool or a lot of practice, getting Linux and Windows to work together seamlessly to

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It’s less than a week away, everyone in the HPC community are drumming up for SC’11. As someone who has been to SC for the past seven years, I was pleased to see that Big Data appears to be the  new kid on the block this year. Roughly 20 sessions will be dedicated to Big Data related topics at this year’s Supercomputing show. From basic training on Hadoop and MapReduce to the challenges and

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Challenge #5: Lack of Multiple Data Source Support With this blog entry, we have reached the final chapter of the Hadoop challenge series. In this blog, I am going to discuss the fifth challenge for current Hadoop implementations – the lack of multiple data source support.The current Hadoop implementation does not support multiple data sources; instead, it supports only one distributed file

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Challenge #4: Lack of Quality of Service We are back after a short break.  The challenge with the current implementation of Hadoop MapReduce continues.  In this blog let’s take a look at the fourth challenge in the existing Hadoop stack – the lack of quality of service. By high quality of service, we are referring to the capability of dynamically allocating available IT infrastructure based on

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You may have read the news that Platform Computing has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by IBM and you may wonder why. I’d like to share with you our thinking at Platform and what our relevance is to you and the dramatic evolution of enterprise computing. Even though not an old man yet and usually too busy doing stuff, for once I will try to look at the past, present and future.

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O’Reilly Strata, a conference dedicated to data science, held its second meeting of the year from September 22 – 23 in New York City.  The conference drew close to 500 attendees, including all the major technology providers in the space as well as user organizations from various industries that are dealing with Big Data problems. Platform Computing was one of the sponsors of the conference, and

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Over the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with someone I regard as a true visionary when it comes to IT management and unlocking the power of private cloud computing. I am referring to Rick Parker who, until recently, has been the IT Director at Fetch Technologies, a longtime customer of Platform Computing, which leverages Platform ISF for their private cloud management. Now

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News from CERN last week that E may not, in fact, equal mc2 was earth shattering. As the news broke, physicists everywhere quivered in the knowledge that everything they once thought true may no longer hold and the debate that continues to encircle the announcement this week is fascinating. Commentary ranges from those excited by the ongoing uncertainties of the modern world to those who are

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Challenge #3: Lack of Application Deployment Support In my previous blog, I explored the shortcomings in resource management capabilities in the current open source Hadoop MapReduce runtime implementation. In this installment of the “Five Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the Enterprise” series, I’d like to take a different view on the existing open source implementation and examine the

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VMworld always attracts some interesting booth strategies and signage.  We were highlighted as being one of the most innovative with our "Are you Cloud Intense?" theme on our shirts and booth imagery. Show Your Cloud Intensity I'm not sure we are philosophers, but we definitely know how to help customers build private clouds with IaaS management software!

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Last week, Platform HPC 3.0.1 Dell Edition was released. One of the significant features of this release is the support of high availability for management nodes on the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. Why is support for management node HA special when many cluster management tools support it already?Well, Platform HPC is not just a cluster management solution. It is an end-to-end

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  We are pleased to announce that Platform Computing 1.5 is now available.  Compared to its predecessor, Platform MapReduce v1.0 released in late June, the newly released version brings a number of enhancements in the key functionalities the product delivers.  Major improvements include the availability of the MapReduce application adapter technology, which allows users to execute their existing

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One of the fun elements at VMworld is participating in the “Best of VMworld” awards.  Platform Computing entered the Private Cloud Management category against 15+ vendors.  After several web meetings, live demos and reference reviews, we were awarded the Finalist position.   Best of VMworld 2011 Private Cloud This award follows other recent successes such as being named the #1 private

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4 days.  115 degrees outside.  20,000 of my closest virtualization friends.  VMworld Las Vegas was quite an experience.  The Platform Computing booth was busy from start to finish with a demo of our award-winning Platform ISF private cloud (IaaS) management solution.   From attending the keynotes and speaking with attendees, I had 5 key takeaways from the event: 1.       Private cloud

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Z is for… Zodiac The wonders of the universe will remain of interest to the human race until the end of time or at least until we think we know everything about everything. Whichever comes first… With the developments in technology of late, the amount of information we have about constellations and other universes is growing exponentially. For all we know, in fifty years we may be taking

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Challenge #2: Current Hadoop MapReduce implementations lack flexibility and reliable resource management As outlined in Part 1 of this series, here at Platform, we’ve identified five significant challenges that we believe are currently hindering Hadoop MapReduce adoption in enterprise environments.  The second challenge, addressed here, is a lack of flexibility and resource management provided by

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Y is for… yield strength Think how many children play with plasticine and Play-Doh and day dream about being an artist or a sculptor when they grow up. The majority of adults actually follow different career paths but the true passions of a child often resonate with their adult selves in a different and more advanced form. Just look at the number of engineers in the world! ‘Yield strength’ or ‘

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With the emergence of “big data” has come a number of new programming methodologies for collecting, processing and analyzing the large volume and often unstructured data. Although Hadoop MapReduce is one of the promising approaches for processing and organizing results from unstructured data, the engine running underneath MapReduce applications  is not yet enterprise ready. At Platform Computing

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X is for X-ray analysis There’s no denying that science is significantly more advanced than ever before. In fact, I would argue that today’s doctors and scientists would be lost if asked to work in the conditions experienced by their counterparts in times gone by. Modern technology has allowed medicine and associated scientific disciplines to go beyond the simple diagnosis of coughs and colds

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W is for weather mappingFrom Argentina to Afghanistan, Lisbon to London, and Boston to Beijing, strip away all our cultural differences and you are left with one single unifying trait of humanity: we love to talk about the weather.Weather by its very nature is unpredictable, and it is this uncertainty that has been a thorn in the side of humanity since the beginning. So, in a similar way that

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V is for… virtual prototypingWhile virtual prototyping may sound like complicated process, it’s actually just a form of product development that uses Computer Aided Design or Engineering to develop a virtual prototype before putting a physical object into production. In other words, it’s about building big expensive stuff like spaceships, race cars, and battleships.Organizations like NASA aren’t

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U is for universe modeling As we near the end of our HPC ABC we’ve seen a wide range of HPC examples. It literally does not get bigger than this one…Our H blog post explained how CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is using HPC to crunch data and determine the origins of the universe. What many don’t know is it can also be used to see how our universe might grow. According to Scientific American, the

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“Big Data” is in and hot these days. This year’s Hadoop Summit 2011 attracted nearly 1,600 people, doubling the size of the conference from last year. Topics discussed at the Summit ranged from questions and concerns about Hortonworks, a fresh spinoff from Yahoo!, to various technical and use case discussions around Hadoop. While the center stage was dominated by full distribution players, such

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T is for transactional processing, time travel and teaWhen it comes to “T” I can think of a few great examples of HPC use, or potential use, ranging from the very practical, to science fiction, and then back down the earth.The very practical example is transactional processing. It can be a complicated process, but HPC can really simplify it. Consider, for example, the computing processes involved

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S is for Space exploration!Are we alone in the cosmos? What is dark matter? What is the universe expanding into? The nature of the cosmos has fascinated us earthlings since we first looked up at the sky and began to wonder. We’ve come a long way since then. We've ditched the loin cloths, created the telescope and even set foot on the moon – but there are many questions which remain unanswered and

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Many people think Platform Cluster Manager is just a commercial version of the open source software, Kusu. When Kusu was born a few years ago, that actually was the case. Since then, Platform Cluster Manager has evolved significantly, and by comparing the latest release of Platform Cluster Manager with Kusu today, one will find there are many differences now.Kusu is open source cluster

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“Big Data” seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue in recent months, and here at the Platform this has been no exception. Applying MapReduce applications to the data deluge has so much potential, but in Derrick Harris’ sage words “Hadoop may be hot, but it needs to be useful” (source: GigaOM).  With this in mind, Platform has set itself to applying its 18-year experience in policy-driven

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This week, the TOP500 ranked the system at Taiwan’s National Center for High Performance Computing as #42 in their June 2011 bi-annual supercomputer list. This system was provided by Acer together with its technology partners, AMD, DataDirect Networks, QLogic, and Platform Computing. Platform Computing provided the management software and MPI libraries for the system, as well as services for

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R is for Reservoir modellingIt might just look like thin brown treacle to you and I, but crude oil is a big money business.Millions of years worth of pressure under the earth’s surface has turned the tiny plants and animals of prehistoric Earth into the modern world’s most valuable resource – powering vehicles, industries and economies across the globe. As such, the financial rewards for finding

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Q for Quantum Physics / MechanicsQuantum physics, also known as quantum mechanics or theory, is one of those subjects which most people know little about. The micro infinitesimal scale of what it deals with is often too hard to comprehend. Lucky it doesn’t normally crop up in everyday conversation, and is a subject which most people can simply forget about.However, quantum physics lies

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Platform HPC 3 has a new skin, a brand new web interface that is modern and future looking. While we are emphasizing the usability of Platform HPC with this new product release, some people think Platform HPC is just a GUI around Linux. They couldn’t be more mistaken.GNOME and KDE are graphical desktop interfaces for Linux, which are included in most Linux distributions. They make Linux easier to

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P is for predictionsIn the past year we’ve seen the devastation that weather can cause - from terrible floods to tornados to forest fires caused by intense heat. The need for better weather forecasts has never been greater. When meteorologists have the means to better predict the weather, people have more time to prepare.High performance computing can help meteorologists crunch weather and

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O is for Oil and Gas As demand continues to soar, the suppliers of our natural oil and gas resources are under increasing amounts of pressure to deliver product and keep prices low – these are basic economic principles, after all. But less well-known is the role which HPC is playing to ease the burden on companies involved in this market.The applications of HPC are diverse and virtually limitless

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There is nothing better than a real world customer case study to explain the value of deploying a product. Cut through the marketing and explain: The underlying problem / pain pointsThe vendor selection processKey decisions and lesson learnedActual value being achieved At the recent Wall Street & Technology Capital Markets Cloud Symposium, the Chief Infrastructure Architect

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N is for NeuroscienceEarlier blog posts in this series have addressed the potential High Performance Computing has in helping scientists with medical research. This post focuses on Neuroscience in particular.High Performance Computing can help neuroscientists quickly and effectively create and test accurate models of the brain. This helps bring research to life and could potentially unlock many

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Every once in a while, it’s nice to have a refresh. Sometimes a new haircut or a new tech toy can do wonders to give ourselves a boost. The same goes for software—while upgrades or small version improvements may happen frequently throughout a product’s lifecycle, products don’t always get the refresh they deserve when it comes to their interface. Today, Platform HPC got a refresh with our

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-23223139962027231482011-05-13T14:34:00.000-04:002011-05-13T14:34:01.595-04:00

Looking Beyond EMC’s Announcement Well, they finally made it official.  The announcement this week from EMC marked its formal entry into  “Big Data” field  with an appliance solution for Hadoop – a  product  called Greenplum HD Data Computing Appliance, which will be rolling out later this year. The move firmly places EMC in competition with those already in play (on different levels) in a market

Jie Wu, Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise Analyticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667460319039496490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-4361558053537987822011-05-12T10:01:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:44:51.173-04:00

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Chris Porter - Product Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977085666307897631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-80383625167359215902011-05-10T13:05:00.005-04:002011-05-10T13:28:17.293-04:00

M is for MedicineHigh Performance Computing can assist with medical research, helping researchers and scientists achieve tangible and game changing results. It can speed up the time taken to crunch vital medical data from a wide variety of sources -- from breast cancer scans to DNA profiles. I expect the next medical breakthrough will have been powered in some part by High Performance

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-31777545275589689302011-05-06T12:09:00.001-04:002011-05-06T12:11:25.224-04:00

L = Love and Linear RegressionThis blog post will focus on the letter L, and potential ways HPC can help solve two issues, which begin with L. The first is technical, the second is rather more hypothetical.Linear regression assesses the relationship between two different variables, to find a correlation. This method, which is popular among scientists, can sometimes be a lengthy process. However,

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-2132367753575658692011-05-03T20:20:00.003-04:002011-05-03T20:24:39.269-04:00

The last thing busy HPC administrators and IT managers need is to spend their time developing complex scripts for extracting and analyzing massive volumes of workload and system data needed to ensure that workload is being distributed efficiently and that SLAs are being met. To help ease that burden, Platform announced the latest versions of Platform RTM and Platform Analytics today. Designed to

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-32538327932380883492011-04-27T22:02:00.003-04:002011-04-27T22:11:00.092-04:00

I am happy to report that over the last two quarters, Platform has won several significant multi-million dollar deals in both the capital markets and insurance sectors, and expanded its portfolio of Fortune 500 customers. These landmark sales indicate growing demand for Platform’s products including our cloud management technology, Platform ISF, and Platform’s Symphony, which we are announcing

Onkar Parmar, Product Managernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-43457373801529242772011-04-26T14:18:00.003-04:002011-04-26T14:22:35.623-04:00

K is for knowledge miningAs the saying goes, knowledge is power – and who am I to argue?The more knowledge we have on a subject, situation or person the more-informed the decision making process becomes. For example, if I was looking to purchase a rental property in New York it would be useful for me to know what areas were popular and what prices I could reasonably ask for. Similarly, by

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-60823597789588891822011-04-19T14:51:00.002-04:002011-04-19T14:53:38.017-04:00

J is for jet engine design.It’s difficult today to imagine a world without air travel. Whether travelling for business or pleasure, the human species has well and truly taken to the skies – and we owe it all to the jet engine.We’ve come a long way since 1939, when the Heinkel He 178 became the world's first jet-powered aircraft. Back then, jet engines were far less efficient than their piston

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-36729967466438627182011-04-13T17:53:00.003-04:002011-04-13T18:08:02.585-04:00

Insurance Like all financial services companies today, insurance companies (whether national or global in scale) are under constant pressure. The rise of consumer empowerment through the growth of online comparison sites means insurance companies’ websites need to manage increased volume of traffic, requiring additional processing power. Meanwhile, the reporting requirements from the regulatory

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-68882882322004225752011-04-05T10:39:00.007-04:002011-04-05T10:54:38.708-04:00

This blog post will focus on the letter H, and how HPC is being used to crunch data to determine the origins of the universe! High Energy Physics – When it comes to high energy physics, there is only one name in the frame: CERN. The European Organization for Nuclear Research is using HPC for the Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Collider is a 100 meter long particle accelerator designed to

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-1552734842674936322011-03-31T16:18:00.002-04:002011-03-31T16:38:16.210-04:00

In my previous blog, I mentioned that Platform Symphony can be used in statistical computing. “R” is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language has become a de facto standard among statisticians for developing statistical software, and is widely used for statistical software development and data analysis. R is an implementation of the S

Onkar Parmar, Product Managernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-31459764130591231842011-03-31T16:15:00.002-04:002011-03-31T16:18:34.706-04:00

Although the majority of Platform Symphony’s customers are in the Financial Services sector, Platform Symphony’s core value propositions (faster, cheaper with more agility) also apply to a variety of industries outside of Financial Services.For example, Platform Symphony is widely used for Monte Carlo simulations in finance. Those same methods has actually also been applied to fields as diverse

Onkar Parmar, Product Managernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-1118713158742978902011-03-31T16:05:00.003-04:002011-03-31T16:15:13.400-04:00

One of the principal applications for Platform Symphony is risk management. While risk management techniques vary by customer type, all financial services companies face the same basic challenge of modeling multiple scenarios describing different risk factors so as to maximize gains and minimize the potential for financial loss.Here are some examples of problems financial services customers are

Onkar Parmar, Product Managernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-49467907676513221102011-03-29T16:22:00.002-04:002011-03-29T16:27:41.906-04:00

G is for Gambling. Whether you like to place the occasional bet or not, most of us would agree that online gambling and gaming is a big money industry. Not only can we now wager our money on more events than ever before (from the result of the Super Bowl or the elections to whether it will snow on Christmas Day), but the age of the internet is also fuelling an increasing demand for “live-in play”

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-49862988184375554892011-03-24T11:04:00.004-04:002011-03-24T11:35:41.852-04:00

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Chris Porter - Product Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977085666307897631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-74714500775511925822011-03-22T11:39:00.001-04:002011-03-22T11:52:15.000-04:00

F is for financial services…Every day financial traders work at the speed of light to deal in a wide variety of investment banking products. To stay ahead of the game, they rely heavily on large numbers of complex and compute-intensive data risk analysis and commodity pricing calculations. Without these, it would simply be impossible to turn a profit!As the last few years take their toll on the

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-90274231999564417202011-03-15T17:57:00.003-04:002011-03-15T18:07:15.021-04:00

This week I’ll turn my attention to the letter ‘E’.Energy is an extremely hot topic. It’s an issue that is important on a global level, and governments across the world are ushering in new legislation and tax laws to encourage a more energy efficient approach to life.Those who see HPC as a burden on energy supplies are often short sighted – HPC can be used to provide more energy efficient

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-57389371894789474292011-03-09T16:43:00.005-05:002011-03-10T13:54:58.823-05:00

My last blog described the results of implementing a refreshed 32-node CFD (computational fluid dynamics) cluster by using a completely different solution from the one implemented in the previous cluster. Using Platform HPC for the refresh, the new cluster significantly reduced its job failure rate and had a 15% usage increase and 25% throughput increase. After the HPC cluster was in production

William Lu, Director of Product Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14848857201923086690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-86163100641302224942011-03-08T14:22:00.003-05:002011-03-08T14:33:43.324-05:00

Today’s HPC ABC will focus on the letter D.Design – HPC computing is a great environment for Computer Aided Design. It allows designers to perform complex analyses that can result in a range of benefits – from more efficient aircraft design to faster cars and complex architectural renderings.Simpson Strong-Tie produces structural products for building safer, stronger homes and buildings and has

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-79674548408849025272011-03-02T20:55:00.002-05:002011-03-02T21:01:23.747-05:00

Consumer Products — In the world of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) the need to deliver high quality products fast and in huge volumes – often for global distribution – means the strategic and logistical challenges are endless. Meanwhile, in an ever-restrictive economic climate, manufacturers of consumer products also need to maintain a delicate balance of reducing costs while maintaining their

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-74356942213961943722011-03-02T11:41:00.001-05:002011-03-02T14:26:39.296-05:00

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Chris Porter - Product Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977085666307897631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-84068099384598526322011-02-23T09:34:00.004-05:002011-02-23T09:44:01.255-05:00

In my last blog, I described an audit we recently did for a small manufacturing company on their 32-node CFD (computational fluid dynamics) cluster. The objective of the audit was to both evaluate the efficiency of the cluster and develop an upgrade plan. In this blog, I will describe their experience and the results they had after deploying Platform HPC.As a refresher, through the auditing

William Lu, Director of Product Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14848857201923086690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-84029211122882404172011-02-22T14:03:00.004-05:002011-02-22T14:24:30.834-05:00

This is our second post in the HPC ABC series. Last week we mused upon the different industries beginning with the letter A that could benefit from HPC. The idea of this series is to help realize the potential HPC has to solve problems or enhance development and design for a number of industries. Predictably enough, we’re focusing on the letter B in this post.Biology - One of our customers, The

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-76673327376583811492011-02-15T16:33:00.030-05:002011-02-15T17:45:14.609-05:00

Working in this industry, sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the bytes and pieces and lose sight of the bigger picture. The bigger picture is that high performance computing (HPC) is critical for maintaining a competitive advantage in multiple industries — literally from A-Z.At Platform Computing we thought it would be a good idea to start brainstorming the many ways that HPC could be used

Louise Westoby, Sr Product Marketing Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04370439420250731412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-80672637270664009212011-02-07T17:10:00.002-05:002011-02-07T17:18:46.981-05:00

In HPC, hardware value reduces over time very quickly. This is because new hardware is always performing better and consuming less power. The value of even the most the leading edge hardware usually peaks at its first six months.A few months ago, we did an audit for a small manufacturing company on their 32-node CFD (computational fluid dynamics) cluster. The objective of the audit was to both

William Lu, Director of Product Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14848857201923086690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-2203706958809451352011-02-04T10:19:00.002-05:002011-02-04T10:28:09.331-05:00

Earlier this week, I had the privilege of attending 451 Group’s Client Conference in San Francisco. After a couple of days of listening to sessions on “The Data Structure of the Cloud,” I came away with some thoughts on what’s going on in our industry right now.The trends are clear, and the camps are clear. It’s new and old. It’s not new vs. old. The real question is where, when and how to

Randy Clark CMO Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-56149199260709539452011-01-06T13:20:00.003-05:002011-01-06T13:33:20.497-05:00

If what we saw at the Supercomputing 2010 (SC’10) Conference in New Orleans proves to be any indicator, 2011 will see real cloud deployments for many HPC users. As Chris Porter reported in his blog from the show, and as we reported in today’s press release on the short survey we did at the conference, the cloud is coming to HPC and it’s coming fast! We spoke to 100 delegates at the conference

Randy Clark CMO Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-52809974793633679032010-12-23T22:31:00.002-05:002010-12-23T22:38:57.575-05:00

Waters USA 2010 was held on December 6, 2010 at Marriot Marquis Hotel at Times Square. I was not sure what to expect as this was my first time attending this show. I must say that it was very well attended; my guess is that over 500 people attended the event. There were representatives from quite a few of the major Wall Street firms: JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland,

Onkar Parmar, Product Managernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-32422074197312763272010-12-21T18:14:00.001-05:002010-12-21T18:17:31.510-05:00

In most organizations that use small and medium HPC clusters (smaller than 200 nodes), a HPC cluster is treated as a separate system from an IT management perspective. As a result, the amount of IT administration effort allocated to HPC clusters is very limited. Often, a part-time Linux administrator is tasked with taking care of an HPC cluster that is used by tens and even hundreds of users.

William Lu, Director of Product Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14848857201923086690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-3840661488762684512010-12-21T15:32:00.007-05:002010-12-21T15:56:50.465-05:00

“So just how does Santa manage to travel the earth in just one evening and deliver all those presents” is a question you might get asked this Christmas. Sure, you can opt for the “magic” answer but perhaps Santa has a really awesome HPC environment up there at the North Pole?Red Bull Racing is using HPC software to significantly accelerate its computer-aided design and engineering processes for

Nick Werstiukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17984194944166213948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-32225938856761051572010-12-09T01:14:00.018-05:002010-12-13T15:42:19.651-05:00

This year’s Waters USA December 6th, 2010 Conference was one of the biggest and best attended conferences I have been at all year. Held at the Marriot Marquis, which is in the heart of Times Square, was truly a great preview in terms of shedding light on where the Financial Services Industry will be heading in 2011. The show’s focus was on how FS firms continue to leverage technology to achieve

David Warm, CTO Financial Services, Platform Computinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01096841352672357920noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-20038836324269006142010-12-08T11:46:00.003-05:002010-12-08T11:58:25.174-05:00

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Chris Porter - Product Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977085666307897631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-57301644313157255672010-11-30T20:00:00.002-05:002010-11-30T20:21:31.277-05:00

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Chris Porter - Product Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977085666307897631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-69351289727439634392010-11-29T00:41:00.001-05:002010-11-29T00:47:00.609-05:00

In previous blog, I spoke about running Analytics on a grid comprised of commodity hardware. In this blog I will discuss the different types of analytics and where it is used. Predictive analytics is used in actuarial science, financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, travel, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and other fields. Sales analytics is the process of determining how

Onkar Parmar, Product Managernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-88067148310343315722010-11-24T11:48:00.003-05:002010-11-24T11:51:48.977-05:00

It was a busy but exciting week for me last week in New Orleans during Supercomputing 2010 (SC’10). I’m really pleased to report that our complete cluster management solution, Platform HPC, which was announced one week prior to the conference, resonated very well with many of the show attendees I talked to.As our VP of Product Management and Marketing Ken Hertzler noted in his blog announcing the

William Lu, Director of Product Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14848857201923086690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-28102561037724640892010-11-23T10:09:00.001-05:002010-11-23T10:15:41.936-05:00

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Chris Porter - Product Managerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05977085666307897631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-70442184014924684372010-11-15T10:00:00.002-05:002010-11-15T10:08:43.186-05:00

Having just arrived at the bustling Supercomputing 2010 show in New Orleans, I’m pleased to say that the latest version of our flagship product Platform LSF Version 8 was announced today at the show. We believe LSF 8 is the industry’s most comprehensive workload scheduling solution for HPC available today. Our goal with Platform LSF 8 is to help IT organizations really maximize their compute

Ken Hertzler, VP Product Management, Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-14865437516532399792010-11-13T14:28:00.004-05:002010-11-13T14:43:30.615-05:00

Just having come back from the HPC China Conference in Beijing two weeks ago where TianHe 1A was announced, I am now packing for SC’10 in New Orleans. For those of you unfamiliar with TianHe 1A, it is currently the world’s fastest supercomputer capable of computing 2.507 petaflops, or 2,507 trillion calculations per second. TianHe 1A, together with Nebulae (the word’s second fastest supercomputer

William Lu, Director of Product Managementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14848857201923086690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-72929192533540041662010-11-09T12:14:00.003-05:002010-11-09T12:24:14.381-05:00

The past few weeks have been really busy here at Platform leading up to today, but I’m proud to say that we have just released the latest product in our flagship HPC product family, Platform HPC. As the most complete cluster software solution currently on the market, Platform HPC makes cluster management and workload scheduling easy for users who are not experts in clusters, but need HPC clusters

Ken Hertzler, VP Product Management, Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-57045418973628682422010-11-01T12:53:00.002-04:002010-11-01T13:16:53.191-04:00

Analytics programs have become an increasingly important tool for many companies to help provide insight into how the business is performing. The need to measure performance and gauge ROI across lines of business has been particularly important during the global recession over the past two years. At the same time, the amount of data that companies amass daily and must process to analyze

Onkar Parmar, Product Managernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-47079430765198733362010-10-26T11:16:00.003-04:002010-10-26T11:25:26.460-04:00

With SIBOS kicking into high gear this week, it’s hard not to think about the significant changes that have gone on in the banking industry over the past few years. The most obvious reflection of this lies in the key themes of the conference. The idea of ‘rebuilding trust’ addresses how banks can tackle the conflict between reducing risk and bringing down cost while ‘recovery’ looks at leveraging

Lorraine Suttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17310805880489035070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-45660925245334306922010-10-26T11:00:00.003-04:002010-10-26T11:06:14.337-04:00

On the first day of SIBOS here in cold Amsterdam, I attended the market structures keynote and panel session chaired by Chris Skinner, CEO of Balatro. The session opened amicably with Alan Cameron of BNP Paribas exploring the impacts of the Code of Conduct and T2S initiative on the pan-European Settlement and Clearing landscape. All-in-all, he concluded that the markets are silo’ed and need to

Lorraine Suttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17310805880489035070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-37267928978807639942010-10-20T08:48:00.001-04:002010-10-20T08:48:50.733-04:00

During his recent speech at London School of Economics Steve Ballmer said "The cloud will open a whole new range of opportunities to use computing in more valuable ways. There are new applications that you couldn't have built in a world without the cloud."Cloud really is sparking innovation and the promise of innovation in the cloud is a driver for adoption. This year we conducted a study around

Randy Clark CMO Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-86557654315881540042010-10-14T09:03:00.003-04:002010-10-14T09:15:52.946-04:00

Hello I'm Jeff Hong, Financial Services Industry Marketing at Platform Computing, recently we and our partner, SAS, sponsored a survey with Wall Street and Technology (WS&T) of leading capital markets firms on analytics (http://www.grid-analytics.wallstreetandtech.com/index.jhtml). While many of survey's results were par for course, a few findings raised the collective eyebrows here at the

Lorraine Suttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17310805880489035070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-28191106435292633262010-10-05T15:49:00.000-04:002010-10-05T15:50:50.051-04:00

September marks the second birthday of CERN’s Hadron Collider. That makes it two years since the machine was switched on to start uncovering the mysteries of the universe.For us at Platform Computing, this anniversary is particularly exciting as it also serves as a reminder of the work we are doing to help CERN reach it goals. After all, answering life’s fundamental questions would be impossible

Randy Clark CMO Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-2638146675330784492010-10-04T18:48:00.000-04:002010-10-04T18:50:14.772-04:00

Two sets of recent discussions highlighted the business role of private clouds for me. The first set of conversations was at the Wall Street and Technology roundtable in NYC September 20th. Leading financial institutions gathered to discuss the role and challenges of big analytics. The second set of conversations was with our Platform ISF customers who are building private clouds.My takeaway

Randy Clark CMO Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-78366842407376964402010-09-30T10:41:00.016-04:002010-10-13T13:48:23.138-04:00

Industry analyst Bill Claybrook wrote a lengthy article that recently appeared discussing the “bumpy ride” many companies may face on the road to private cloud implementation. Ironically, the article coincided with the release of Platform’s ISF Starter Pack, which is actually designed specifically to make that road less bumpy!The good news, according to Claybrook, is that private clouds are the

Nick Werstiukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17984194944166213948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-74126207199964491172010-09-29T16:57:00.000-04:002010-09-29T16:57:00.410-04:00

Almost one year ago, Platform’s CTO, Phil Morris blogged about some of the primary drivers for cloud adoption.  Looking back at his post, it is interesting to observe the paths many of our customers have since taken to actually implement cloud and, more specifically, HPC cloud.  HPC clouds, loosely defined, are systems where your scheduler realizes that current HPC loads require more resources

RJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-83278254664644958632010-09-27T14:44:00.002-04:002010-09-27T14:52:23.746-04:00

Last, but definitely not least in my four-part cloud use case blog series is the high-performance computing (HPC) cloud. This type of private cloud use case allows an organization to automatically change compute node personalities based on workload requirements, enabling resource harvesting within the datacenter and cloud bursting to external resources or the public cloud. This resource

Martin Harris, Dir Product Mgmt Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-83060355078797596542010-09-22T11:58:00.006-04:002010-09-23T15:45:54.960-04:00

It’s no secret that time is money, and designers, engineers and product analysts need to design, prototype and deliver products to market faster in order to meet shrinking product lifecycles and be competitive. To date, the obvious solution has been to do more and larger simulations that can create and even test parts prior to any metal being machined. Increased model sizes and the need for

Ron Renwicknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-36746141862997546602010-09-15T14:33:00.001-04:002010-09-15T18:36:09.040-04:00

Greener data centers continue to be a priority with Platform customers, especially with rising energy costs and growing environmental awareness. There are several tools that Platform is developing to help make everyone's data center "greener" and more efficient.  From simple mechanisms to power-off idle machines to smarter placement of heat-generating jobs within a data center to minimize air

RJonesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-22386516062921129542010-09-10T12:11:00.001-04:002010-09-10T12:22:00.226-04:00

The third installment of my four-part cloud use case blog series is the test and development cloud. This type of private cloud deployment provides a self-service test and development infrastructure where resources are provisioned automatically and within minutes according to project timelines for test/dev teams within an organization. This results in better utilization of existing servers, lower

Martin Harris, Dir Product Mgmt Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-494989389915052472010-09-03T09:05:00.006-04:002010-09-03T09:15:27.056-04:00

Forrester’s James Staten recently made some interesting points on how organizations are feeling the heat when it comes to ‘doing cloud’. According to James, many organizations are talking the talk when it comes to cloud but in reality are doing little more than virtualizing part of their IT environment. This isn’t surprising given the attention cloud is receiving, everyone is eager to get

Nick Werstiukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17984194944166213948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-66790712577033538742010-09-02T16:44:00.001-04:002010-09-02T16:55:36.127-04:00

What do you get when you combine a grass roots solution portfolio and adoption strategy with enterprise pricing schemes? Answer: A very attractive short-term value proposition that is sure to put many customers on the path to vCloud.What’s the problem? Cost and vendor lock-in.Cloud computing is the third major wave in the history of distributed computing and offers the promise of open systems

Martin Harris, Dir Product Mgmt Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-13784715138088485432010-08-31T10:15:00.007-04:002010-08-31T10:28:50.972-04:00

Is the market doomed to a big orange, blue, or red cloud? Even if you won’t be attending VMworld this week in San Francisco, you can bet virtualization and clouds will be dominating the tech media and blogs throughout the course of the week.We expect that VMware will announce plans to move up the stack and attempt to secure VM management customers into their evolving cloud platform. Platform won’

Martin Harris, Dir Product Mgmt Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-40758108394087974832010-08-30T17:32:00.002-04:002010-08-30T17:42:25.940-04:00

Next up in my four-part cloud use case blog series is application cloud. With this approach, N-tier applications are migrated to a cloud-friendly, stateless architecture to enable automatic increases and decreases in resource allocations based on workload and resource policies.As I mentioned in my previous post, while application clouds actually provide the most comprehensive benefits of all the

Martin Harris, Dir Product Mgmt Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4448442260155622262.post-14023437981553195282010-08-25T21:06:00.005-04:002010-08-25T21:11:12.237-04:00

A new vendor coalition was announced this week, bringing together software from three vendors and an integrator to enable private cloud. You may be wondering what our take is on this announcement… Well, I can sum it up in one word: Difficult.As James Staten of Forrester wrote in You’re not a cloud yet – get on the path today, private cloud will take quite some time for many organizations to

Martin Harris, Dir Product Mgmt Platform Computingnoreply@blogger.com0