IBM Redbooks

Scott Denham

Dino Quintero

Elsie Ramos

Alberto Ortiz

Joanna Wong

Rodrigo Garcia da Silva

Aline Guedes Pinto

Atsumori Sasaki

Roger Tucker

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 documented deployment model within an IBM System x® environment. This deployment model offers clients a planned foundation for dynamic cloud infrastructure, provisioning, large-scale parallel HPC application development, cluster management, and grid applications. This IBM publication is targeted to IT specialists, IT architects, support personnel, and clients. This book is intended for anyone who wants information about how IBM Platform Computing solutions use IBM to provide a wide array of client solutions.

IBM Platform Computing Solutions

John Wright

Peng Jiang

Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro

Peter McCullagh

Esteban Arias Navarro

Pablo Barquero Garro

Luis Carlos Cruz Huertas

Franz Friedrich Liebinger Portela

Ichsan Mulia Permata

This IBM® Redbooks® publication demonstrates and documents how to implement and manage an IBM PowerLinuxTM cluster for big data focusing on hardware management, operating systems provisioning, application provisioning, cluster readiness check, hardware, operating system, IBM InfoSphere® BigInsightsTM, IBM Platform Symphony®, IBM SpectrumTM Scale (formerly IBM GPFSTM), applications monitoring, and performance tuning. This publication shows that IBM PowerLinux clustering solutions (hardware and software) deliver significant value to clients that need cost-effective, highly scalable, and robust solutions for big data and analytics workloads. This book documents and addresses topics on how to use IBM Platform Cluster Manager to manage PowerLinux BigData data clusters through IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, Spectrum Scale, and Platform Symphony. This book documents how to set up and manage a big data cluster on PowerLinux servers to customize application and programming solutions, and to tune applications to use IBM hardware architectures. This document uses the architectural technologies and the software solutions that are available from IBM to help solve challenging technical and business problems. This book is targeted at technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) that are responsible for delivering cost-effective Linux on IBM Power SystemsTM solutions that help uncover insights among client's data so they can act to optimize business results, product development, and scientific discoveries.

Implementing an IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Cluster using Linux on Power

Joanna Wong

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