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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
NEW PLATFORM GRID SOLUTION TARGETS ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY
Platform Computing Inc announced the immediate availability of Platform LSF
Electronics Edition, the first end-to-end Grid solution created specifically
for the electronics sector. Using the best-in-class Platform LSF Electronics
Edition, enterprises in the competitive Electronics marketplace are able to
improve resource utilization and system manageability enabling them to achieve
faster, more accurate chip designs with higher Quality of Results (QoR). This
ultimately allows enterprises to bring products to market more quickly,
reducing total cost of ownership.
Platform LSF Electronics Edition includes four key components: high
performance capabilities; key application integrations with key application
tools; premium support and maintenance with customized electronics consulting
services; and an electronics-oriented best practices guide.
"Vertical markets are in need of solutions that not only optimize IT assets
but also business objectives," said Nick Gall, senior vice president and
principal analyst at META Group. "Given that a key business objective behind
the adoption of Grid is usually time to market, it is essential that Grid
offerings pre-integrate the application licensing, delivery, reporting and
management into 'turn key' business solutions."
Built on a foundation of 12 years of high performance Grid computing
experience with Industry leaders such as AMD, ARM, ATI, Cisco, NVIDIA,
Synopsis and Texas Instruments, Platform LSF Electronics Edition offers
Electronics enterprises the following four components:
High Performance Capabilities
- Superior workload management: Advanced workload management engine enables
superior scheduling and ensures priority projects are completed on-time,
reliably with improved QoR, high capacity utilization and superior system
scalability.
- Easy integration with leading simulations, synthesis and verification
tools: Plug and play application integrations with industry leading tools
enable rapid deployment and seamless operation in heterogeneous environments.
- Sophisticated system manageability: Speeds time to results by sharing
virtualized resources beyond a single cluster to span geographical locations.
- Application license optimization: Ensures high priority projects are always
provisioned with critical licenses, minimizes unnecessary delays and reduces
license purchases.
- Advanced reporting: Pre-built reports collects and packages key system metrics
enabling improved cluster performance and easier configuration
troubleshooting.
Electronics Specific Application Integrations
With the Electronics industry's broadest application integration, Platform LSF
Electronics Edition integrates seamlessly with simulation, synthesis and
verification applications from leaders such as Altera, Cadence, Denali, IBM,
Magma, Mentor, Nassda, Synopsys and Verisity.
"Verisity has a close relationship with Platform Computing as both a customer
and vendor and we've appreciated the benefits of improved system productivity
we've seen," said Michael McNamara, senior vice president of technology at
Verisity. "Verisity's new verification management product, vManager, is
seamlessly integrated with Platform LSF Electronics Edition to deliver a
Grid-enabled verification solution managing hundreds of thousands of jobs from
planning to closure. The end result is that customers get to market sooner
with higher predictability, enhanced product quality and lower cost."
Premium Support, Maintenance With Customized Electronics Consulting Services
Drawn on years of deployments, Premium Support and Maintenance consisting of
electronics-specific consulting services and training helps organizations
implement Platform LSF Electronics Edition to ensure reliability for
customized services such as operations review, decision support and
methodology review. These services can be "mixed-and-matched" to meet a
company's unique needs.
Best Practices Guide
Leveraging its experience in the Electronics industry, Platform has developed
a new Best Practices Guide that provides a systematic guide to maximizing the
ROI from the Platform LSF Electronics Edition and recommendations to make
implementation easier and faster. Underpinning Platform LSF Electronics
Edition is the robust Virtual Execution Machine (VEM). The VEM is a high
performance, production-proven Grid architecture that incorporates a common
application, workload and management infrastructure. Deployed with over 1,600
Platform customers, the VEM delivers unparalleled scalability, robustness,
speed and flexibility.
"The Electronics industry is increasingly challenged with the growing
complexity of generating designs such as System-on-Chip (SoC) that require
computing power when needed, as needed. At the same time, it needs to reduce
the high business cost of design errors and delays as well as the overall cost
of IT," said Peter Nichol, vice president of electronics at Platform
Computing. "Platform LSF Electronics Edition marks the continued execution of
Platform's strategy to deliver Industry-specific solutions across key vertical
markets. This unique solution for the electronics market provides the greatest
breadth and depth of functionality to allow our EDA customers to more quickly
deliver quality designs."
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