PLATFORM USER SUMMIT - A Technical Forum on the Evolution of Platform LSF
In this five session seminar from Platform Computing, you’ll hear how Platform's production-proven grid solutions, including Platform LSF® and
Platform LSF Electronics Edition, are used by leading electronics companies to shorten product design and testing cycles, improve time-to-market,
significantly reduce costs and deliver higher quality products. To simplify grid deployment, Platform has grid-enabled over 100 industry applications such
as Altera, Cadence, Denali, IBM, Magma, Mentor, Nassda, Synopsys and Verisity.
Cadence Server Farm Initiatives
Tom Grotton, Cadence
Tom reviews Cadence's Server Farm Initiative (SFI) a company-wide initiative to maximize
ROI for the thousands of computer systems deployed throughout the enterprise. SFI
uses gridMatrix Technology and Distributed Resource Management software (LSF) to minimize
and optimize job runs in a compute farm. Tom explains how SFI reduces operating and
capital costs for both IT and R&D at Cadence.
Global License Management
Kelly Overgaard, Adaptec
This talk focuses on the deployment of Global License Broker (GLB) and how Adaptec benefits by sharing licenses
across all engineering groups and sites. Kelly explains how license sharing increases the company's license
utilization, decreases the need to purchase more licenses and allows engineers to complete projects faster.
Understanding Your Cluster, Understanding Your Project
Ibrahim "Hoomi" Chadirchi, ARM
Hoomi Chadirchi provides a case study profiling the deployment of Platform Intelligence, detailing ARM's
plan to use information gathered from their clusters as well as the methods they will employ to gather that information.
Software Support for High-throughput Proteomics
Alan James, Myriad Proteomics
Alan's discussion provides an in-depth review of high-throughput interaction proteomics workflows, LIMS and data collection,
analysis pipelines, and automation of analysis pipelines.
Architectural and Solution Process Overview of Platform Intelligence (PI)
David Antila, Platform Computing
The IC marketplace is under pressure to deliver increased capabilities in shorter timeframes under tighter budgets.
David explains how the Platform Intelligence suite aids planning, process continuity, IT consolidation, and
ROI objectives. Tying together the presentions by the speakers, David provides a roadmap that dramatically
increases the odds of meeting your business goals—while reducing license costs.
