Platform Symphony is a High-performance computing

High-performance computing

High-performance computing uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers.-Overview:...

 (HPC) software system developed by Platform Computing

Platform Computing

Platform Computing is a privately held software company that is primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing Facility . It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is currently headquartered in Markham, Ontario with 11 branch offices across the United States, Europe and...

, the company that developed Load Sharing Facility

Load Sharing Facility

Load Sharing Facility is a commercial computer software job scheduler sold by Platform Computing. It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures....

 (LSF). Focusing on the Financial Services

Financial services

Financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry. The finance industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with the management of money. Among these organizations are credit unions, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, consumer finance companies,...

 Industry , Symphony is designed to deliver scalability and enhances performance for compute-intensive risk and analytical applications . By enabling distributed computing

Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...

, users will be able to run applications without worrying where the applications reside or whether there's enough capacity available to support demand .

With Platform Symphony 4.0, Platform also gives developers free access to the Symphony Developer Edition

Symphony Developer Edition

Symphony Developer Edition is a free High-performance computing and Grid computing SDK and middleware developed by Platform Computing. It is a light-weight version of the cluster-based Symphony commercial software. Symphony DE is aimed at providing a dedicated development environment for building...

with no restrictions or time limits .