IBM Platform Symphony V5.2 Enables Scalable, High- Performance Grid Services for a Variety of Parallel Compute and Data Intensive Applications
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IBM United States Software Announcement 212-204, dated June 4, 2012 IBM Platform Symphony V5.2 enables scalable, high- performance grid services for a variety of parallel compute and data intensive applications Table of contents 1 Overview 7 Publications 2 Key prerequisites 8 Technical information 2 Planned availability date 13 Ordering information 2 Description 16 Terms and conditions 4 Product positioning 19 Prices 6 Program number 20 Order now At a glance IBM® Platform SymphonyTM V5.2 helps you exceed your performance goals with a fast, efficient grid computing environment. You can realize: • Faster throughput and performance • Higher levels of resource utilization • Reduced infrastructure and management costs • Reduced application development and maintenance costs • The agility to respond instantly to real-time demands For ordering, contact Your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. For more information contact the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (426-2255). Reference: YE001 Overview IBM Platform Symphony V5.2 is an enterprise-class grid manager for running distributed application services on a scalable, shared, heterogeneous grid. It accelerates a wide variety of compute and data-intensive applications, quickly computing results while making optimal use of available infrastructure. Platform Symphony's efficient low-latency middleware and scheduling architecture is designed to provide the performance and agility required to predictably meet and exceed throughput goals for the most demanding analytic workloads. Designed for reliability and having advanced management features, IBM Platform Symphony helps organizations realize improved application performance at a significantly reduced total cost of ownership. Platform Symphony can help you: • Obtain higher quality business results faster • Reduce infrastructure and management costs • Combine compute and data intensive applications on a single shared platform IBM United States Software Announcement 212-204 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1 Platform Symphony runs on a variety of hardware and operating environments including the latest generation of IBM System x® servers. By pre-qualifying and certifying these platforms in large-scale environments, you take the risk out of deploying mission-critical grid computing applications. Key features of Platform Symphony : • Ultra-fast, low-latency grid scheduler (less than 1 millisecond overhead) • Scalable to 10,000 cores per application and 40,000 cores per cluster • Heterogeneous application and platform support • Unique resource sharing model that enables lending and borrowing for maximum efficiency • Optimized, low latency MapReduce implementation • Support of both compute and data intensive problems on a single shared grid of resources Platform Symphony is available in four different editions tailored to meet your different business requirements. • IBM Platform Symphony Developer Edition - Build and test applications without the need for a full-scale grid. • IBM Platform Symphony Express® Edition - The ideal solution for departmental clusters. • IBM Platform Symphony Standard Edition - Enterprise class performance and scalability. • IBM Platform Symphony Advanced Edition - Use for distributed compute and data intensive applications. Key prerequisites • A physical grid computing environment comprised of IBM System x or similar servers. • Cluster nodes should be preinstalled with supported operating environments. • Cluster nodes should be connected via a fast TCP/IP network infrastructure. • Management hosts on the cluster should share a common network file system. Planned availability date June 15, 2012 Description IBM Platform Symphony V5.2 is a high-performance grid middleware and management solution that runs on your choice of hardware and operating environments. You can use Platform Symphony to run preintegrated applications available from a variety of independent software vendor (ISVs), or easily adapt and accelerate their own compute and data intensive parallel workloads on a grid making them agile and flexible. Performance and scalability Platform Symphony is one of the industry's fastest and most scalable service- oriented architecture (SOA) grid management software. IBM Platform Symphony provides organizations with a competitive advantage by solving a wide range of parallelizable compute and data-intensive business problems. • Scale to 10,000 cores per application • Sub-millisecond latency for grid services IBM United States Software Announcement 212-204 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2 • Throughput to 17,000 tasks per second • Reallocate up to 1,000 grid services per second Platform Symphony environments can scale by linking multiple clusters to environments comprised of hundreds of thousands of cores. For organizations that need a fast service-oriented computing infrastructure, Platform Symphony's performance and scalability provides a clear competitive advantage. Flexible resource sharing A key advantage of Platform Symphony is its sophisticated hierarchical resource sharing model. Platform Symphony's ability to lend and borrow resources, based on policy, guarantees users access to owned resources when needed. Departments can also easily share resources not in use with others, and borrow resources dynamically as needed. By avoiding the need for application-specific siloes, users enjoy a better quality of service with reduced infrastructure and management costs. Whether you are deploying on LinuxTM , WindowsTM , Windows HPC Server, UNIXTM , or all of the above, you can manage your environment as a single shared resource pool with IBM Platform Symphony . Support for compute and data intensive workloads IBM Platform Symphony is optimized for both compute and data intensive parallel workloads. It provides a rich set of client and server side APIs for a variety of parallel computing problems alongside an optimized Hadoop compatible MapReduce implementation along with other data handling innovations to accelerate the processing of large distributed data sets. Both interfaces take advantage of Platform Symphony's low-latency middleware and resource orchestration capability to deliver dramatic gains for both compute and data intensive applications. By incorporating the function of scheduling both compute and data related tasks into a single smart scheduler, tasks can be dispatched with an awareness of data locality resulting in dramatic gains in performance and efficiency as applications avoid the needless movement of data across congested networks. Rapid response for business critical workloads IBM Platform Symphony is able to react instantly to changes in application demand. With the flexibility to adapt when priorities change, IBM Platform Symphony can reallocate over 2,000 compute engines per second to different workloads depending on configurable sharing policies and application priorities. This translates into better application performance, better utilization, and an ability to respond quickly to business critical demands. Ease of application and data integration Regardless of your development environment, IBM Platform Symphony has you covered. Well documented APIs enable fast integrations for applications written in the following languages: • C++ • C#, .NET • JavaTM • Excel COM • Native binaries Extensions provided for MicrosoftTM Visual Studio Professional support compilation free integration of .NET assemblies. Developers can use a step-by-step wizard to integrate and test applications end-to-end without needing to be expert in the Platform Symphony APIs. For Java developers, the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) is supported as well. For data intensive applications, Platform Symphony Developer Edition and Platform Symphony Advanced Edition provide an optimized Hadoop compatible MapReduce implementation enabling most Hadoop applications to run without modification. IBM United States Software Announcement 212-204 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3 Plug-ins are also provided for distributed file systems including IBM General Parallel File System ( GPFSTM ), Apache HDFS, and Appistry. Platform Symphony also supports integrations with third-party in-memory data grid solutions. A free downloadable IBM Platform Symphony Developer Edition makes developers productive immediately, enabling them to develop and test CPU or graphics processing unit (GPU) based applications on their operating system of choice without the need for a production grid. Platform Symphony Developer Edition also enables you to develop and exercise data intensive MapReduce applications with just one or two compute hosts. It is available from developerWorks® http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ Accessibility by people with disabilities A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on accessibility compliance can be requested at http://www.ibm.com/able/product_accessibility/index.html Product positioning Platform Symphony is part of a family of cluster and grid workload management solutions from IBM . These products include: • IBM LoadLeveler® • IBM Platform LSF® IBM LoadLeveler is a job scheduler that controls the scheduling of batch jobs. LoadLeveler matches job requirements to the best available compute resources for execution and runs on IBM POWER® machines and x86-based Linux systems. LoadLeveler is an excellent choice as a workload management system