Platform Computing Launches Platform LSF 8

By DE Editors

Platform Computing has announced the release of Platform LSF 8.

Its enhancements include:

• Guarantee resources to groups of jobs, for simplified administration and alignment of business SLAs with infrastructure configuration.

• Live reconfiguration to apply common configuration changes dynamically via a CLI or API without the need for reconfiguration or restart. 

• Delegation of administrative rights.

• Fairshare enhancements enable users to configure different shares at the queue and global level.

• Pre-emptive scheduling enhancements to fine-tune key production policies by specifying how long a job can run before it can be preempted, as well as the maximum accumulated time the job can be preempted.

In conjunction with this release, updates to several key add-on products are now also available:

• Platform Application Center 8 for building application-centric web interfaces.

• Platform Process Manager 8 for running and managing workflows on a shared infrastructure.

• Platform MultiCluster 8 for managing multiple distributed clusters as a single global compute resource.

• Platform Session Scheduler 8 enable high-throughput, low-latency task submission without re-architecting applications.

• Platform Make 8 for reducing build times for complex software applications.

For more information, visit Platform Computing.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.