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Line 15: ==History== Platform Computing was founded by Songnian Zhou, Jingwen Wang, and Bing Wu in 1992 <ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ogf.org/News/documents/ogf_winter_2007.pdf\|publisher=OGF\|title=GridConnections\|accessdate=2007-12-29}}</ref>. Its first product, LSF, was based on the ''Utopia'' research project at the [[University of Toronto]] <ref>{{cite web\|url=http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/zhou93utopia.html\|publisher=John Wiley & Sons\|title=Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems\|accessdate=2007-12-29}}</ref>. The LSF software was developed partially with funding from [[CANARIE]] (Canadian Advanced Network and Research for Industry and Education) <ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/tadeng.pdf\|publisher=CANARIE\|title=Shaping the future: success stories from the CARARIE files\|accessdate=2007-12-29}}</ref>. Platform's revenue was approximately $300,000 in 1993, and reached $12 million in 1997. Revenue grew by 34% (YoY) to US$46.2 million in 2001.

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