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Platform Computing brings HPC to cloud management


By David Worthington
June 24, 2009 — 
High-performance computing management software maker Platform Computing has developed a new solution that pulls together physical and virtual IT resources to create and manage private clouds.

On Monday, the company released a beta of Platform ISF, an infrastructure-sharing platform for serving up Java EE application environments inside the firewall from virtual resources, clusters and grids. Its general availability is planned for fall 2009.

ISF is comprised of Platform's resource sharing technology and its virtual machine orchestrator. ISF is designed to be technology-agnostic, supporting multiple operating systems and virtual machine hypervisors, said CEO Songnian Zhou.

"Platform ISF's key strengths are how it leverages Platform's High Performance Computing technologies, in particular, its virtual machine orchestrator and its EGO resource sharing technology," said ZapThink managing partner Jason Bloomberg.

"One interesting feature of ISF is that it's billed as 'governance neutral'—that is, it will support various choices for cloud governance. The challenges organizations will face, therefore, will be ensuring that their governance is in order before they make the move to Platform ISF."

Application environments are delivered according to workload and resource-scheduling policies. The platform allows business users self-service, he said.

"Users request resources and run applications on those resources. Administrators have the ability to manage both resources and service offerings, and the policies on which they allocate resources," explained Zhou. "It is a way to provide more economic governance out to users as they share resources, and provide more policy and usage governance on the way resources are being used."

The platform taps into application metadata to select the underlying computing resources that are required to support it, he said. He added that ISF is also resource-aware, with an understanding of network topology, classes of servers, and energy requirements.

Many development and QA teams are "hugging machines" due to availability problems, and "silos drive down utilization rates whether they are virtualized or not," Zhou observed.

"Faster access to resources and driving up utilization rates across resources are the two key value propositions we are hearing from beta customers," he said.


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