Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the integration of IBM Platform Symphony® with IBM BigInsights™. It includes IBM Platform LSF® implementation scenarios that use IBM System x® technologies. This IBM Redbooks publication is written for consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists who are responsible for providing solutions and support for IBM Platform Computing solutions.
This book explains how the IBM Platform Computing solutions and the IBM System x platform can help to solve customer challenges and to maximize systems throughput, capacity, and management. It examines the tools, utilities, documentation, and other resources that are available to help technical teams provide solutions and support for IBM Platform Computing solutions in a System x environment.
In addition, this book includes a well-defined and documented deployment model within a System x environment. It provides a planned foundation for provisioning and building large scale parallel high-performance computing (HPC) applications, cluster management, analytics workloads, and grid applications.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Products and portfolio for IBM Platform Computing solutions
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Chapter 2. Integration of IBM Platform Symphony and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
- 2.1 IBM Platform Symphony
- 2.2 Environment
- 2.3 Configuring InfoSphere BigInsights
- 2.4 Installing IBM Platform Symphony Advanced Edition
- 2.5 Integrating IBM Platform Symphony and InfoSphere BigInsights
- 2.6 Additional configuration for IBM Platform Symphony
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2.7 Benchmark tests
- 2.7.1 Test environment and monitoring tools
- 2.7.2 Results of the stand-alone benchmark for InfoSphere BigInsights V1.4
- 2.7.3 Results of integration for IBM Platform Symphony V5.2 and InfoSphere BigInsights V1.4
- 2.7.4 Advantages of integrating IBM Platform Symphony V5.2 with InfoSphere BigInsights V1.4
- 2.8 Adding users
- 2.9 Adding nodes
- 2.10 Troubleshooting
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Chapter 3. Implementation scenario for IBM Platform LSF
- 3.1 Valid hardware resources to ensure that the setup can use IBM Platform LSF
- 3.2 Sizing for I/O-intensive clusters
- 3.3 Considerations for GPGPU intensive clusters
- 3.4 Job queues
- 3.5 Job scheduling
- 3.6 Goal-oriented scheduling
- 3.7 Job submission
- 3.8 Compute units
- 3.9 Application profiles
- 3.10 Job submission prechecks and setup
- 3.11 Job resizing
- 3.12 Idle job detection
- 3.13 Defining external resources (elims)
- 3.14 Using advance reservations
- 3.15 Hyper-Threading technology
- 3.16 Changing the paradigm with guaranteed resources
- Chapter 4. Industry solutions from IBM Platform Computing
- Chapter 5. Security considerations for IBM Platform Computing solutions
- Appendix A. XML installation file for IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM Platform Computing Integration Solutions
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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