Platform Computing

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Platform Computing
Type	Private
Founded	Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1992)
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Key people	Leadership team
Industry	Distributed computing, Grid computing, Computer software
Products	LSF
Revenue	$50 million USD (2003)
Employees	350 (2005)
Slogan	Accelerating Intelligence
Website	www.platform.com

Platform Computing is a privately held software company that is primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing Facility (LSF). It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[edit] See also

• Distributed computing
• Computational grid
• CPU scavenging
• Grid computing
• Beowulf (computing)
• Job schedulers

[edit] External links

• http://www.platform.com/
• http://www.platformusers.net/ user forum operated by Platform
• LinuxHPC.org Linux High Performance Computing and Clustering Portal
• WinHPC.org Windows High Performance Computing and Clustering Portal