IBM Spectrum Computing Redbooks

IBM Reference Architecture for Genomics: Speed, Scale, Smarts
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Redpaper, published 20 May 2015

Genomic medicine promises to revolutionize biomedical research and clinical care. By investigating the human genome in the context of biological pathways, drug interaction, and environmental factors, it is now possible for genomic scientists and clinicians to identify individuals at risk of disease, provide early diagnoses based on biomarkers, and recommend effective treatments. However, the field of genomics has been caught in a flood of data as huge amounts of information are generated by next-generation sequencers and rapidly evolving analytical platforms such as high-performance ... [more]

IBM Platform Computing Solutions Reference Architectures and Best Practices
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Redbooks, published 16 Apr 2014, last updated 30 Sep 2014

  (based on 5 reviews)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication demonstrates and documents that the combination of IBM System x®, IBM GPFS™, IBM GPFS-FPO, IBM Platform Symphony®, IBM Platform HPC, IBM Platform LSF®, IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition, and IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition deliver significant value to clients in need of cost-effective, highly scalable, and robust solutions. IBM depth of solutions can help the clients plan a foundation to face challenges in how to manage, maintain, enhance, and provision computing environments to, for example, analyze the growing volumes of data ... [more]

IBM LoadLeveler to IBM Platform LSF Migration Guide
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Redpaper, published 18 Sep 2013, last updated 22 Jan 2014

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication shows IBM Tivoli® Workload Scheduler (TWS) LoadLeveler® (LoadLeveler) users how to migrate their workloads to IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility (LSF®). LoadLeveler is a parallel job scheduling system that enables users to run more jobs in less time. It does so by matching each job's processing needs and priority with the available resources, thereby maximizing resource use. LoadLeveler also provides a single point of control for effective workload management, and supports high-availability configurations. LSF is a powerful workload manager for demanding, ... [more]

IBM Platform HPC for System x
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Solution Guide, published 13 Dec 2013

IBM® Platform HPC, which is easy-to-use and comprehensive HPC management software, includes a rich set of features that empowers high-performance technical computing users. It helps reduce the complexity of a computing environment and improves the time to solution.

IBM Platform Computing: Accelerating Business Results for Compute and Data-intensive Applications
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Solution Guide, published 17 Jun 2013

This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide provides information about the different industry solutions that the IBM Platform Computing portfolio offers to help clients manage, maintain, and analyze the growing volumes of data within their organizations. IBM Platform Computing offers solutions that address different industries. IBM Platform Computing is the systems software platform of choice for deploying and managing complex environments, which helps clients gain insights from their data to solve challenging technical and business ... [more]

IBM Platform Computing Integration Solutions
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Redbooks, published 19 Mar 2013, last updated 1 May 2013

  (based on 2 reviews)

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 ... [more]

IBM Platform LSF Implementation Scenario in an IBM iDataPlex Cluster
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Redpaper, published 29 Apr 2013, last updated 30 Apr 2013

The IBM® Platform Load Sharing Facility (LSF®) product family is a workload management platform for demanding, distributed, and mission-critical high-performance computing (HPC) environments. It provides a set of intelligent, policy-driven scheduling features so that you can fully take advantage of all of your compute infrastructure resources and ensure optimal application performance. By using the highly scalable and available architecture, you can schedule complex workloads and manage petaflop-scale resources. This IBM Redpaper™ publication explains how to use IBM Platform LSF features ... [more]

Integration of IBM Platform Symphony and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
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Redpaper, published 30 Apr 2013

Hadoop can store big data and unlock the answers by analyzing them. IBM® InfoSphere® BigInsights™ is built on top of open source Hadoop and extends it with advanced analytic tools and other capabilities with added value. InfoSphere BigInsights helps organizations of all sizes to more efficiently manage the vast amounts of data that consumers and businesses create every day. At its core, Hadoop is a Distributed Computing Environment that manages the execution of distributed jobs and tasks on a cluster. As with any Distributed Computing Environment, the Hadoop software needs to provide ... [more]

IBM Platform Computing Solutions
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Redbooks, published 7 Dec 2012

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Platform Computing Solutions Redbooks® publication is the first book to describe each of the available offerings that are part of the IBM portfolio of Cloud, analytics, and High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions for our clients. This IBM Redbooks publication delivers descriptions of the available offerings from IBM Platform Computing that address challenges for our clients in each industry. We include a few implementation and testing scenarios with selected solutions. This publication helps strengthen the position of IBM Platform Computing solutions with a well-defined and ... [more]