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IBM gets technical with Platform Computing buy

...IBM said on Tuesday it has acquired Platform Computing, a software company that focuses on grid management, for an undisclosed... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Supercomputer software firm to support Nvidia GPUs

...Platform Computing will support graphical processing unit computing hardware from Nvidia across its... Read more

9 November, 2010 by Jack Clark

Yahoo makes Hadoop team independent

...software with support for the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). On Wednesday Platform Computing announced its own distribution as well, which it called Platform MapReduce... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Welsh HPC grid project signs £15m deal with Fujitsu

The Japanese tech giant will provide hardware, software and consultancy to the £40m effort to build a supercomputing grid for businesses and universities in Wales Read more

22 March, 2011 by Jack Clark
Managing Macs in a Windows Environment

Managing Macs in a Windows Environment

...homogeneous environment of only windows or Mac devices is a rarity. Multi-platform computing environments are the norm and require a complex it landscape comprised... Read more

1 April, 2012

Platform Computing offers HPC facility for HP servers

High-performance computing (HPC) specialist Platform Computing has launched a version of its software to work on HP... Read more

23 March, 2009 by Colin Barker

Platform moves into cloud-management tools

Platform Computing has introduced a technology-agnostic cloud management package designed to help... Read more

23 June, 2009 by Sally Whittle

Platform details open grid plans

Grid computing specialist Platform Computing has developed a unified framework for grid-enabled applications in a... Read more

19 September, 2005 by Karen Gomm

What the hell are Grids anyway?

...groups and multiple locations. Look at a company like JP Morgan [a Platform Computing customer], they, as a leading early adopter of computing, wanted to... Read more

10 December, 2004 by Andrew Donoghue

IBM outlines Power7 chip plan

The company reveals details of the chips, which will appear in its Power Systems server line, alongside announcing an application to manage a range of virtual servers Read more

22 July, 2009 by Sally Whittle

Sun polishes up its Constellation HPC system

...s 10 largest supercomputing systems, according to Sun. Rival providers include IBM, Platform Computing and Cray. The expansion of the portfolio is meant to help... Read more

23 June, 2009 by David Meyer

Tibco aims to speed up cloud apps

...not the first vendor to offer this kind of technology; 3tera and Platform Computing offer similar automatic flexing for cloud applications. Longbottom also expects Microsoft... Read more

3 June, 2009 by Sally Whittle

Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing

...Enterprise Linux 5.2 integrated with Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) 5, Platform Computing's cluster software framework. The system includes device drivers, an installer... Read more

3 October, 2008 by Matthew Broersma

IBM buys mainframe maker, sparks antitrust fears

...CCIA) said the purchase of Platform Solutions (not to be confused with Platform Computing, a different company) is dangerous for the mainframe industry because it... Read more

3 July, 2008 by Colin Barker
IBM introduces new hybrid blade

IBM introduces new hybrid blade

...ZDNet.co.uk. "But with the QS22 we are doing it now." Platform Computing, a reseller of HPC systems, has one customer trialling the QS22... Read more

16 May, 2008 by Colin Barker

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