This IBM® Redbooks® publication is one in a series of books that are written specifically for the IBM System Blue Gene® supercomputer, Blue Gene/Q®, which is the third generation of massively parallel supercomputers from IBM in the Blue Gene series. This book provides an overview of the system administration environment for Blue Gene/Q. It is intended to help administrators understand the tools that are available to maintain this system.

This book details Blue Gene Navigator, which has grown to be a full featured web-based system administration tool on Blue Gene/Q. The book also describes many of the day-to-day administrative functions, such as running diagnostics, performing service actions, and monitoring hardware. There are also sections that cover BGmaster and the Control System processes that it monitors.

This book is intended for Blue Gene/Q system administrators. It helps them use the tools that are available to maintain the Blue Gene/Q system.

Chapter 1. IBM Blue Gene/Q system overview

Chapter 2. Navigator

Chapter 3. Compute and I/O blocks

Chapter 4. Configuring I/O nodes

Chapter 5. Control System console

Chapter 6. Submitting jobs

Chapter 7. Reliability, availability, and serviceability

Chapter 8. Toolkit for Event Analysis and Logging

Chapter 9. Service actions

Chapter 10. Diagnostics

Chapter 11. BGmaster

Chapter 12. Midplane Management Control System server

Chapter 13. Machine controller server

Chapter 14. The runjob server and runjob mux

Chapter 15. The Blue Gene Web Services server

Chapter 16. Real-time server

Chapter 17. Distributed Control System

Chapter 18. Security

Chapter 19. Database

Chapter 20. Logging

Chapter 21. The bg.properties file

Chapter 22. The Coreprocessor tool

Appendix A. Hardware location naming conventions

Appendix B. Control System simulator