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Systems/Enterprise:
PLATFORM RELEASES PLATFORM SYMPHONY 2.1
Platform Computing Inc announced Platform Symphony 2.1 with new integrated
Message Passing Interface (MPI), Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), and Open
Multi Processing (Open MP) parallel application support, allowing financial
organizations to move MPI applications from costly Symmetric Multiprocessing
(SMP) systems to commodity hardware architectures without compromising
manageability. With Platform Symphony 2.1, financial services organizations
can achieve higher ROI by seamlessly deploying more applications to the Grid
more quickly while improving application performance, scalability and
reliability.
In the past, sophisticated capital market firms have used MPI/Open MP
technologies to parallelize the most demanding, compute intensive pricing and
risk analytics in the front office. These applications often are hosted on
very large SMP machines. Now, with Platform Symphony 2.1, parallel MPI
applications are quickly and easily integrated into the Platform Symphony
compute Grid and they require no modification or recompiling. Platform
Symphony's advanced self-management capabilities dynamically prioritize and
preempt parallel work based on importance, logically linking work to the
fastest and closest resources to ensure that work is completed when it is
needed. This functionality is ideal for financial services organizations that
need to increase application performance and reliability in order to meet
service-level agreements and comply with regulatory requirements while
reducing costs.
"Building on Platform's 12 years of experience in high performance computing,
Platform Symphony can now Grid-enable more applications, deploy them faster
and offer more granular management of the parallel jobs," said Robert
Boettcher, vice president of financial services at Platform Computing. "With
minimal, or, in many cases, no reengineering of the application, Platform
enables financial services organizations to migrate applications to a
commodity PC Grid solution while simultaneously improving manageability. The
result is significant savings in hardware costs, reduced operational costs and
scaleable, on-demand access to resources."
Today's financial services organizations need to obtain more business value
from IT, without costly reengineering or compromising system predictability
and control. They face a number of challenges such as the increasing demand
for application performance as well as ensuring that overnight risk analysis
and pricing models complete in time to meet service-level agreements and
regulatory requirements.
Platform Symphony meets these challenges by supporting the widest range of
workloads found in financial services and offers true service-level
virtualization for greater application reliability, global, enterprise-class
scalability for optimal performance and fail over and guaranteed service
execution of all application workloads.
Underpinning Platform Symphony is the robust Virtual Execution Machine (VEM).
More than simply a distributed application technology, the VEM is a high
performance, system-level architecture. The VEM resides below the application
layer providing a true virtual environment that is ideal for critical workload
management. Currently powering over 1,600 customers worldwide in a variety of
demanding industries and business-critical applications, the production-proven
VEM is the ideal architecture to handle the ever-increasing demand for
application performance in financial services on a 24-7 basis.
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