by Executive Summary IBM recommends that clients exploit the “Improved Channel Path Recovery” (ICR) function , first delivered in z/OS 1.13 (2011), to quickly fence failing...
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With the advent of Docker container support in IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1, it’s become much easier to build and maintain environments for containerized workloads. This...
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IBM Spectrum LSF Suite is a comprehensive suite of offerings supporting traditional high-performance computing (hpc) and high throughput (htc) workloads, as well as for big...
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IBM Spectrum LSF is a workload manager that provides support for traditional high-performance computing (hpc) and high throughput (htc) workloads, as well as for big...
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Shortly after the DS8888F model was introduced toward the end of 2016, IBM published SPC-1 v3 benchmark numbers of 1.5M, more than 3x the previous...
On December 8, 2017, IBM made the DS8886 zHyperLink support generally available. Today’s blog entry introduces a video demo of the zHyperLink technology. Story Board...
The ever expanding and accelerating generation of Big data has made mandatory the usage of more efficient and robust storage filesystems. The data migration across...
Background • Native HDFS supports short circuit read to read data directly from local file system when HDFS client and target datanode are co-located on...
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Federation was added to HDFS to improve the HDFS NameNode horizontal scaling. In HDFS transparency, federation is used to make IBM Spectrum Scale filesystems and...
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