Platform purchases Scali Manage business
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,209722.shtml
TORONTO, and MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Platform Computing announced today it has acquired the Scali Manage business from Massachusetts-based Scali Inc. Scali Manage(TM) is an integrated and flexible High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster management and monitoring system. This strategic acquisition supports Platform’s vision to be the partner of choice for HPC infrastructure software worldwide. The Scali Manage product complements Platform’s existing HPC offerings and extends Platform’s products’ cluster and grid management capabilities.
While the use of clusters and grid infrastructure is on the rise, the integration and management of these systems remains complex. Products such as Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS)* and Scali Manage have been developed specifically to improve performance, simplicity, and lower the support cost necessary to operate a HPC infrastructure. With the acquisition of Scali Manage, Platform will build upon the success of Platform OCS by integrating components of both technologies into a best-of-breed product offering.
Very cool, it will be interesting to see what new products or solutions come from this new acquisition. Grid solutions can be a very effective and efficient way of achieving your processing/performance computing requirements particularly in the risk/credit type applications like Calypso etc.


