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PLATFORM ACCELERATES PRODUCT
QUALITY, SAFETY FOR ENTERPRISES
Extending its leadership position in enterprise Grid computing software
solutions, Platform Computing announced a global Industrial Manufacturing
Acceleration Center and new Grid-enabled solutions to help manufacturing,
automotive and aerospace customers enable their infrastructures and
applications for Grid computing. According to independent market analyst IDC,
the manufacturing sector will spend $2.6 billion on Grid computing by 2006.
Platform's Industrial Manufacturing Acceleration Center provides
industry-specific solutions for Mechanical Computer-Aided Engineering (MCAE),
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), IT consolidation projects, license
optimization and online/batch job acceleration. Platform works closely with
key industry partners, including IBM, HP, CapGemini, CSC, T-Systems and
Science+Computing, to provide comprehensive solutions that produce tangible
benefits during the complete life cycle of manufacturing goods.
Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed
computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid
computing umbrella. Gt04 -- a premiere enterprise Grid computing conference
targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts, and outline
strategies and road maps for Grid deployment. For more information, visit
www.gt04.com.
Grid computing is here!
"As Grid computing continues its upward climb as a high priority IT
investment, more and more companies are turning to Platform to provide real,
ROI-based business solutions," said Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform Computing.
"Our experience in the manufacturing industry dates back over 12 years with
Pratt and Whitney, Boeing, General Motors, Caterpillar and GE Aircraft
Engines, all of which have leveraged Grid technology to accelerate simulation,
crash testing and PLM applications, thereby improving product quality and
safety."
Platform provides Grid solutions to the world's largest automotive and
aerospace companies, including Airbus, Ford, Lockheed Martin Corp, Northrop
Grumman, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Porsche, Rolls Royce and Pratt & Whitney/United
Technologies. Recently, customers such as BAE Systems or Magna Steyr have used
Platform solutions to help their engineering and design groups to get more
work done in less time using their existing IT infrastructures. Platform Grid
solutions are also being used for IT consolidation initiatives and for
automating line of business applications.
"With this announcement, we are solidifying our solution commitment to the
industrial manufacturing market including collaboration with leading
application vendors, to help customers shorten design cycles, bring products
to market faster and reduce expensive quality errors," said Merten Slominsky
vice president of industrial manufacturing at Platform Computing. "Our
solutions are in production with leading automotive and aerospace firms in
North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and in many cases have replaced
unscalable, homegrown software in order to significantly reduce production
time and cost."
"IBM and Platform Computing are delivering production Grid solutions to help
automotive and aerospace companies do more work in less time on their existing
IT infrastructure," said Scott Hopkins, general manager of IBM Product
Lifecycle Management. "Working with key application providers such as Dassault
Systemes, IBM and Platform Computing can help firms such as MAGNA STEYR
shorten the product development cycle, deliver higher quality products, while
significantly reducing operating costs."
Platform Solutions For Industrial Manufacturing
Platform's production-proven Grid solutions, including the Platform LSF Family
of products and Platform IT Analytics, are used by leading industrial
manufacturing companies to achieve significant operational and business
results by allowing more work to be done, in less time, on the existing IT
infrastructure. To simplify Grid deployment, Platform has Grid-enabled over
100 industry applications from vendors such as ANSYS, ABAQUS, Dassault
Systemes, Engineous Software, Fluent, LSTC and MSC Software.
Platform also announced five Grid-enabled solution sets that support major
functions within the manufacturing enterprise. These include:
Platform MCAE Application Acceleration Solution: Accelerates MCAE
applications by improving the utilization of existing HPC clusters and
harnessing idle compute cycles. Jobs can flow between remote locations, while
local autonomy of resources is maintained, minimizing the impact to end-users. Platform Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Acceleration Solution: Improves
the performance of tessellation, rendering, and clash detection applications
to shorten design cycles. Provides a collaborative Web portal that allows
engineers, suppliers and partners to use Grid resources in a seamless and
transparent manner. Platform IT Consolidation Acceleration Solution: Delivers the necessary
tools, consulting and methodology to make sound, fact-based decisions for
consolidating business applications and provides enhanced visibility into the
IT infrastructure to support operational and business objectives. Platform License Optimization Solution: Reduces license costs and improves
throughput by creating a shared license pool that quickly and dynamically
allocates licenses based on priority and ownership. Integrates easily with an
existing MacroVision license management infrastructure to optimize license
usage across multiple compute clusters. Platform Online and Batch Job Acceleration Solution: Lowers operational
costs while maintaining or improving existing service levels, by providing
tools to re-host online and batch applications from expensive mainframes and
multi-processor servers to a lower cost commodity infrastructure.
According to independent market analyst IDC, Grid computing in the
manufacturing sector is projected to be a $2.6 billion market opportunity by
2006. IDC projects the total Grid technology market opportunity at more than
$13 billion by 2007, a compound annual growth rate of 83 percent. Grid
technology is the foundation for emerging computing models including on demand
computing, adaptive enterprise, outsourcing and utility computing.
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