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TORONTO, May 19 /PRNewswire/ — Platform Computing, the global leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) management software, announces the latest version of its industry leading workload management product. Platform LSF intelligently schedules and guarantees the completion of workloads across distributed, virtualized IT environments including desktops, servers, and mainframes. This release greatly improves the handling of large volumes of short run workloads, resulting in a dramatic increase in performance of the overall cluster.

Platform LSF 7 Update 3 delivers a breakthrough innovation called Session Scheduler, which enhances cluster utilization and application performance. This innovative technology will be available as an add-on to Platform LSF and brings low-latency and high-throughput scheduling to environments running large volumes of short duration jobs, delivering much faster time-to-business results and better utilization of compute resources. In addition, LSF 7 Update 3 includes improved scheduling policies, which give customers finer control over job parameters, resulting in increased productivity.

Very cool, I’ll need to read up about this new version of Platform LSF, it will be interesting to see what improvements and new functionality it brings to the end user, any improvements in performance and monitoring would be welcome, as these remain key areas of focus. I’m off to read up more.

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