NVIDIA chooses Platform's LSFToronto 07 March 2001 Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA Corporation, a provider of advanced graphics processing technology, has chosen Platform's LSF software to manage development work in its data center operations and across its entire engineering network that consists of almost 1,000 processors.
The decision is in response to a period of rapid expansion for the company, which has seen its computing farm grow to the current level of close to a thousand CPUs -- with well over 50% growth expected by the end of 2001. The scalability and reliability of Platform's LSF will allow NVIDIA's design engineering team to more effectively keep pace with the escalating demand for and complexity of its industry-leading graphics chip offerings for desktop, consumer and mobile applications.
Platform's LSF Suite is a set of software products that enable distributed computing by providing full access to computing resources through load sharing and dynamic job scheduling within heterogeneous computing environments. LSF provides the full benefit of DRM by scheduling, analyzing and monitoring the processing of distributed application workloads. The net benefit is the ability to accelerate time to market.
Kelly Alexander, UNIX/NT Systems Administrator for NVIDIA confirms that LSF offers a number of benefits that will help the company manage its anticipated growth requirements. "NVIDIA has always prided itself on being the industry's market leader. We've gained that reputation in large part because we focus so much effort on the design and simulation stages of product development. As the size and complexity of NVIDIA's products increased, it was important to have a solution in place that would allow us to run the number of jobs we needed to run, as well as ensure that the right groups were allotted the right processing power and scheduling time. LSF allows us to manage our design resources more effectively by scheduling job runs on a 'fair share' basis. Additionally, running the same application to simultaneously manage our Solaris and Linux compute resources helps make everyone's life easier."
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