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==History==
[[File:PlatformComputing.jpg|thumb|Platform Headquarter in Canada.]]
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|format=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://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.121.1434|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://replay.waybackmachine.org/20040720151637/http://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/tadeng.pdf|format=PDF|publisher=CANARIE|title=Shaping the future: success stories from the CARARIE files|accessdate=2011-04-05}}</ref>