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Assembling an all-star team for HPC and beyond

20 March, 2017
Gabor Samu
IBM

While many organizations have embraced HPC and big data as part of an overall strategy to drive competitiveness, the uptake of these methods is not universal.  Some organizations without the in-house skills, struggle to deploy and maintain HPC environments.  This raises many concerns including the ones below:

  • My user base consists of research and data scientists, not IT experts. How can our organization make the use of the HPC infrastructure as simple as possible?
  • How can I ensure that our organization is extracting maximum performance from our investment in HPC?
  • We often have multiple projects on the go and changing priorities. Is our environment dynamic enough to keep up?
  • Can we easily integrate HPC into our existing infrastructure?

Building on decades of HPC experience, IBM has created an integrated solution for managing, optimizing and simplifying HPC computing environments.  The IBM Power HPC Stack complements the muscle provided by IBM Power Systems and includes all the software needed to:

  • Easily perform ongoing management of the cluster
  • Maximize resource utilization through intelligent, policy-driven scheduling, including support for the latest GPGPUs
  • Get users productive through intuitive job and workflow management interfaces
  • Speed application performance with compilers and libraries to optimize code for IBM POWER architecture

Other vendors espouse the benefits of complete HPC management solutions, but often piece together software from different sources — all making for a less-than-optimal experience for users.  Furthermore, such solutions are frequently focused on initial setup of the environment — which is a one-time thing.

The IBM Power Systems HPC Cluster is a fully integrated cluster offering for traditional HPC, big data analytics and cognitive workloads.  It brings together leading technologies and is based upon IBM Power Systems servers — and comes pre-installed and validated with the IBM Power HPC Stack.

What are you waiting for? Get the all-star team playing for you and speed time to insights!

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