NEC will provide its customers in manufacturing, government and education with integrated solutions from this partnership. Platform Computing's software is designed to increase productivity and performance through improving collaboration and sharing of a wide range of computing resources across multiple servers and geographic locations.

"NEC and Platform Computing have worked together successfully for many years with customers. This agreement formally recognizes the added value of our integrated products and technical capacity," said Yasuo Iwaoka, Executive General Manager, Computers Software Operations Unit, NEC. "With Platform Computing's solutions, we can exploit a real computing utility era and deliver true global computing. Distributed and Grid computing has the potential to enormously impact HPC, and with Platform Computing's solutions we can improve our customers' collaboration, productivity and performance."

"As the next evolution of distributed computing, we are eager to continue working with NEC to drive the adoption of Platform LSF," said Robert Gordon, CEO, Platform Computing. "Platform Computing's software, coupled with NEC's high performance servers, will provide integrated, Grid-enabled solutions for high performance computing."

NEC will sell, install and support Platform Computing's unique suite of comprehensive solutions, including Platform LSF. NEC will also provide Platform Clusterware, the industry's first and only cluster management solution combining workload management and systems management into a single, integrated package, on Express5800 Series including cluster systems.