The document discusses IBM System z processors and how their capabilities have required changes in how CPU management is approached, focusing on features introduced in recent years like zAAP, zIIP, defined capacity limits, blocked workloads, and z10 HiperDispatch which optimizes cache usage by consistently dispatching work to the same physical CPU. It also provides guidance on how to evolve CPU reporting to account for these new capabilities and their instrumentation in SMF records and RMF.
This document discusses memory topics related to IBM System z, including:
- Paging subsystem design recommendations to avoid paging and allow full system dumps.
- Enhancements in z/OS R12 to improve dumping performance.
- Benefits of 1MB large pages for TLB coverage and various product exploitations.
- New z/OS R10 64-bit common area and RMF support for monitoring it.
- Considerations for coupling facility memory allocation for structures, dumps, and white space.
This document summarizes a presentation on Parallel Sysplex performance topics including Coupling Facility CPU instrumentation and structure-level performance analysis. It discusses enhancements in RMF reporting for CF CPU usage and XCF monitoring. Experiments were conducted to analyze CF CPU consumption and service times for different structures under increasing load. The document also covers matching CF CPU data between SMF records, structure duplexing performance impacts, and additional instrumentation available in newer releases.
With the laws of physics providing a nice brick wall that chip builders are heading towards for processor clock speed, we are heading into the territory where simply buying a new machine won't necessarily make your batch go faster. So if you can't go short, go wide! This session looks at some of the performance issues and techniques of splitting your batch jobs into parallel streams to do more at once.
This document discusses the importance of zIIP capacity planning for IBM mainframes. It notes that zIIP utilization and eligible workloads are increasing. The document provides guidance on using instrumentation to measure zIIP usage at the address space level and considering LPAR configuration. Recent DB2 versions have made more CPU work eligible for offloading to zIIPs, changing the rules for zIIP capacity planning.
This document discusses zIIP capacity planning for IBM mainframes. It notes that zIIP capacity planning is important given enhancements that allow more workloads to run on zIIPs. It provides guidelines for doing zIIP capacity planning properly through instrumentation and measuring zIIP usage at the address space level. It also discusses factors to consider like LPAR configuration and new software that can exploit zIIPs.
IBM zAware is a software tool that analyzes log and system data to identify unusual system behavior, diagnose problems, and help speed up problem resolution. It monitors z/OS and Linux on IBM System z environments, detects anomalies, and provides a GUI to analyze issues. IBM zAware reduces troubleshooting time by pinpointing problems and identifying their root causes through advanced analytics of system data.
This document provides a summary of an IBM presentation on zIIP Capacity Planning. The presentation covered:
1) The importance of zIIP Capacity Planning given recent software enhancements that increase zIIP eligibility
2) Recent DB2 versions have significantly increased the amount of work eligible to run on zIIPs, including critical address spaces
3) Proper zIIP Capacity Planning requires measuring potential and actual zIIP usage at the address space level using tools like RMF
This document discusses memory topics related to IBM System z, including:
- Paging subsystem design recommendations to avoid paging and allow full system dumps.
- Enhancements in z/OS R12 to improve dumping performance.
- Benefits of 1MB large pages for TLB coverage and various product exploitations.
- New z/OS R10 64-bit common area and RMF support for monitoring it.
- Considerations for coupling facility memory allocation for structures, dumps, and white space.
This document summarizes a presentation on Parallel Sysplex performance topics including Coupling Facility CPU instrumentation and structure-level performance analysis. It discusses enhancements in RMF reporting for CF CPU usage and XCF monitoring. Experiments were conducted to analyze CF CPU consumption and service times for different structures under increasing load. The document also covers matching CF CPU data between SMF records, structure duplexing performance impacts, and additional instrumentation available in newer releases.
With the laws of physics providing a nice brick wall that chip builders are heading towards for processor clock speed, we are heading into the territory where simply buying a new machine won't necessarily make your batch go faster. So if you can't go short, go wide! This session looks at some of the performance issues and techniques of splitting your batch jobs into parallel streams to do more at once.
This document discusses the importance of zIIP capacity planning for IBM mainframes. It notes that zIIP utilization and eligible workloads are increasing. The document provides guidance on using instrumentation to measure zIIP usage at the address space level and considering LPAR configuration. Recent DB2 versions have made more CPU work eligible for offloading to zIIPs, changing the rules for zIIP capacity planning.
This document discusses zIIP capacity planning for IBM mainframes. It notes that zIIP capacity planning is important given enhancements that allow more workloads to run on zIIPs. It provides guidelines for doing zIIP capacity planning properly through instrumentation and measuring zIIP usage at the address space level. It also discusses factors to consider like LPAR configuration and new software that can exploit zIIPs.
IBM zAware is a software tool that analyzes log and system data to identify unusual system behavior, diagnose problems, and help speed up problem resolution. It monitors z/OS and Linux on IBM System z environments, detects anomalies, and provides a GUI to analyze issues. IBM zAware reduces troubleshooting time by pinpointing problems and identifying their root causes through advanced analytics of system data.
This document provides a summary of an IBM presentation on zIIP Capacity Planning. The presentation covered:
1) The importance of zIIP Capacity Planning given recent software enhancements that increase zIIP eligibility
2) Recent DB2 versions have significantly increased the amount of work eligible to run on zIIPs, including critical address spaces
3) Proper zIIP Capacity Planning requires measuring potential and actual zIIP usage at the address space level using tools like RMF
Munich 2016 - Z011599 Martin Packer - More Fun With DDFMartin Packer
This document summarizes a presentation about analyzing DDF workloads using performance data. The presentation describes how to classify "alien" DB2 work coming through DDF and determine what is issuing the requests. It provides examples analyzing the behavior of different DDF clients, including identifying a CPU spike from one client and determining if another client is exhibiting "sloshing" behavior. The key lessons are that DDF management requires using WLM and application examination/tuning, and SMF 101 accounting trace records are important for instrumentation.
This document provides an overview of IBM Capacity Management Analytics (CMA). CMA is a solution that helps customers manage capacity across their IT infrastructure through features like systems management and optimization, software cost analysis, capacity planning and forecasting, and problem identification. The document outlines the various components and uses cases of CMA and how it can help customers optimize resources, manage costs, plan future capacity needs, and identify potential problems.
This document summarizes a presentation on improvements to RMF's Parallel Sysplex instrumentation over recent years. Some key points covered include:
1) Structure-level CPU reporting in SMF 74-4 allows for capacity planning at the individual structure level and examining CPU consumption of different structures.
2) Enhancements help match CPU data between SMF 70-1 and 74-4 to get a complete picture of Coupling Facility CPU usage.
3) Additional instrumentation provides useful information on topics like structure duplexing performance, XCF traffic patterns, and Coupling Facility link details.
This document discusses the evolution of CPU management on IBM mainframes to account for new capabilities introduced in recent years. It describes technologies like zAAP, zIIP, IFL and Coupling Facility CPUs. It also addresses how traditional LPAR configuration and IRD management have become more complex as installations increase the number and diversity of LPARs. The document provides guidance on analyzing CPU utilization and evolving performance reporting to properly account for these new technologies and dynamic management capabilities.
Top 5 performance and capacity challenges for z/OS Metron
The document discusses top performance and capacity challenges for z/OS, including:
1) Managing z/OS in large enterprises with aging workforces.
2) Planning zIIP capacity as organizations upgrade to newer IBM mainframe models.
3) Tuning WebSphere MQ and bufferpools on z/OS to control performance issues.
The IBM z13 - January 14, 2015 - IBM Latin America Hardware Announcement LG15...Anderson Bassani
IBM announces the new IBM z13 system, which delivers up to 40% more total capacity than the prior zEC12 system. Key features of the z13 include support for up to 10TB of memory, new FICON Express16S channels for storage connectivity, simultaneous multithreading to improve Linux and zIIP workload performance, and vector processing to accelerate analytics workloads. The z13 also provides improved security, availability, and manageability. Existing zEnterprise EC12 and zEnterprise 196 systems can be upgraded to the new z13 configuration.
Munich 2016 - Z011598 Martin Packer - He Picks On CICSMartin Packer
This document summarizes a presentation about managing large CICS estates using system management facility (SMF) data and workload manager tools. It describes using statistical and topological approaches to understand the CICS landscape by analyzing SMF 30 data on region usage and connections between regions, DB2, and MQ. It also discusses using RMF and WLM reporting classes to monitor performance and view transaction-level data from CICS, DB2, and MQ instrumentation for select regions. The goal is to help customers productively manage their portfolio of hundreds or thousands of CICS regions.
The document discusses exploiting data in memory (DIME) projects. It begins by defining DIME and outlining the benefits, which include reduced response times, increased throughput, and faster batch jobs. It then compares storage hierarchies from the past ("then") to the present ("now"), noting how much memory is now available on systems. The document provides examples of DIME for DB2, CICS, Java, and Coupling Facility. It argues that now is a good time to implement DIME projects due to cheaper memory and software capabilities. It concludes by emphasizing measuring memory usage and taking a fresh view of what "full" memory utilization means.
Capacity Management for system z license charge reportingMetron
This document discusses capacity management for IBM z Systems and license charge reporting. It covers topics like different types of IBM license charges, manual vs automatic capping, how to calculate and report license charges using IBM's SCRT tool, and product usage reporting. It also discusses forecasting future capacity needs through modeling trends in business transactions and CPU usage over time. The presentation aims to help IT departments better understand and control their mainframe software licensing costs.
4515 Modernize your CICS applications for Mobile and Cloudnick_garrod
This document discusses modernizing CICS applications for mobile and cloud. It summarizes IBM's work with two clients: Credit Bureau of Turkey and Nationwide. For Credit Bureau of Turkey, IBM helped implement CICS Web services, improve high availability with CICSplex, and upgrade development tools and processes. For Nationwide, IBM's focus areas included developing CICS applications using standard tools, improving high availability and performance with CICSplex, and enhancing the development environment with tools like Rational Developer for z. The document also briefly discusses plans for future work involving high availability, performance analysis, and continuous integration testing.
Educational seminar lessons learned from customer db2 for z os health check...John Campbell
This presentation presented at the Polish DB2 User Group introduces and discusses the most common issues uncovered by the DB2 for z/OS Development SWAT Team from 360 Degree DB2 for z/OS Continuous Availability Assessment (DB2 360) Studies.
DB2 Data Sharing Performance for BeginnersMartin Packer
This document provides an introductory overview of DB2 data sharing performance on IBM System z. It discusses key components of parallel sysplexes like coupling facilities, XCF, and data sharing structures. It also covers performance topics related to these components from both the z/OS and DB2 perspectives. The document aims to provide beginners with a high-level understanding of how to analyze and interpret DB2 data sharing performance numbers.
Cell Technology for Graphics and VisualizationSlide_N
The document discusses Cell technology for graphics and visualization. It provides an overview of the Cell architecture including its Power Processor Element (PPE) and Synergistic Processor Elements (SPEs). The PPE handles operating system tasks while the SPEs provide computational performance. The document outlines programming models for the Cell including function offload, application specific accelerators, computational acceleration, streaming, and a shared memory multiprocessor model. It also discusses heterogeneous threading and a single source compiler approach.
The document introduces the new mainframe and its capabilities. It outlines that mainframes are used by large organizations to host commercial databases and applications requiring high security and availability. Mainframes can process large volumes of different workloads concurrently. Typical mainframe roles include system programmers, operators, developers and administrators. Common operating systems are z/OS, z/VM, VSE, and Linux for zSeries.
Enterprise power systems transition to power7 technologysolarisyougood
This document summarizes an IBM presentation about Power7 technology. It introduces Power7 processors and systems, compares them to competitors' offerings, and highlights Power7's performance, reliability, availability, security and virtualization capabilities. Key points include Power7 having 8 cores with 32MB eDRAM L3 cache, outperforming Intel's best processors on major workloads, and delivering "mainframe-class" reliability with 99.997% availability.
QPACE - QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.)Heiko Joerg Schick
The document describes the QPACE supercomputer project which aims to build a supercomputer optimized for lattice QCD simulations using IBM PowerXCell 8i processors. Key aspects summarized are:
1) QPACE uses 256 node cards per rack, each with a PowerXCell 8i processor, to achieve 26 TFLOPS and 1 TB memory per rack.
2) Custom networks include a 3D torus for nearest neighbor communication and an interrupt tree for global operations.
3) The node card design features the PowerXCell processor, FPGA network processor, memory, and networking interfaces.
4) Early results found the hardware design worked well but network processor implementation and software deployment took longer than planned.
Short presentation I gave to the UKCMG 1-day mini-conference 15 October in London.
Covers 2 main aspects of Parallel Sysplex performance, both in the CPU area:
1) Comparing Type 70 view of CPU to Type 74-4.
2) Type 74-4 Structure-Level CPU and its role in Capacity Planning and Performance.
The document provides an overview of PowerAI, IBM's set of libraries for developing machine learning and deep learning applications. It discusses what PowerAI is, its hardware requirements, the differences between CPUs and GPUs for machine learning, how to use PowerAI components like TensorFlow and Theano, and tuning recommendations for PowerAI performance.
Visão geral do hardware do servidor System z e Linux on z - Concurso MainframeAnderson Bassani
Apresentação realizada no evento de premiação do Concurso Mainframe 2014 que foi realizado em São Paulo, IBM Tutóia. Tópicos apresentados incluíram: hardware System zEC12 e zBC12, Linux on z, O que o System z faz que outras plataformas não fazem e um caso real de uma empresa desenvolvedora de Software.
Munich 2016 - Z011599 Martin Packer - More Fun With DDFMartin Packer
This document summarizes a presentation about analyzing DDF workloads using performance data. The presentation describes how to classify "alien" DB2 work coming through DDF and determine what is issuing the requests. It provides examples analyzing the behavior of different DDF clients, including identifying a CPU spike from one client and determining if another client is exhibiting "sloshing" behavior. The key lessons are that DDF management requires using WLM and application examination/tuning, and SMF 101 accounting trace records are important for instrumentation.
This document provides an overview of IBM Capacity Management Analytics (CMA). CMA is a solution that helps customers manage capacity across their IT infrastructure through features like systems management and optimization, software cost analysis, capacity planning and forecasting, and problem identification. The document outlines the various components and uses cases of CMA and how it can help customers optimize resources, manage costs, plan future capacity needs, and identify potential problems.
This document summarizes a presentation on improvements to RMF's Parallel Sysplex instrumentation over recent years. Some key points covered include:
1) Structure-level CPU reporting in SMF 74-4 allows for capacity planning at the individual structure level and examining CPU consumption of different structures.
2) Enhancements help match CPU data between SMF 70-1 and 74-4 to get a complete picture of Coupling Facility CPU usage.
3) Additional instrumentation provides useful information on topics like structure duplexing performance, XCF traffic patterns, and Coupling Facility link details.
This document discusses the evolution of CPU management on IBM mainframes to account for new capabilities introduced in recent years. It describes technologies like zAAP, zIIP, IFL and Coupling Facility CPUs. It also addresses how traditional LPAR configuration and IRD management have become more complex as installations increase the number and diversity of LPARs. The document provides guidance on analyzing CPU utilization and evolving performance reporting to properly account for these new technologies and dynamic management capabilities.
Top 5 performance and capacity challenges for z/OS Metron
The document discusses top performance and capacity challenges for z/OS, including:
1) Managing z/OS in large enterprises with aging workforces.
2) Planning zIIP capacity as organizations upgrade to newer IBM mainframe models.
3) Tuning WebSphere MQ and bufferpools on z/OS to control performance issues.
The IBM z13 - January 14, 2015 - IBM Latin America Hardware Announcement LG15...Anderson Bassani
IBM announces the new IBM z13 system, which delivers up to 40% more total capacity than the prior zEC12 system. Key features of the z13 include support for up to 10TB of memory, new FICON Express16S channels for storage connectivity, simultaneous multithreading to improve Linux and zIIP workload performance, and vector processing to accelerate analytics workloads. The z13 also provides improved security, availability, and manageability. Existing zEnterprise EC12 and zEnterprise 196 systems can be upgraded to the new z13 configuration.
Munich 2016 - Z011598 Martin Packer - He Picks On CICSMartin Packer
This document summarizes a presentation about managing large CICS estates using system management facility (SMF) data and workload manager tools. It describes using statistical and topological approaches to understand the CICS landscape by analyzing SMF 30 data on region usage and connections between regions, DB2, and MQ. It also discusses using RMF and WLM reporting classes to monitor performance and view transaction-level data from CICS, DB2, and MQ instrumentation for select regions. The goal is to help customers productively manage their portfolio of hundreds or thousands of CICS regions.
The document discusses exploiting data in memory (DIME) projects. It begins by defining DIME and outlining the benefits, which include reduced response times, increased throughput, and faster batch jobs. It then compares storage hierarchies from the past ("then") to the present ("now"), noting how much memory is now available on systems. The document provides examples of DIME for DB2, CICS, Java, and Coupling Facility. It argues that now is a good time to implement DIME projects due to cheaper memory and software capabilities. It concludes by emphasizing measuring memory usage and taking a fresh view of what "full" memory utilization means.
Capacity Management for system z license charge reportingMetron
This document discusses capacity management for IBM z Systems and license charge reporting. It covers topics like different types of IBM license charges, manual vs automatic capping, how to calculate and report license charges using IBM's SCRT tool, and product usage reporting. It also discusses forecasting future capacity needs through modeling trends in business transactions and CPU usage over time. The presentation aims to help IT departments better understand and control their mainframe software licensing costs.
4515 Modernize your CICS applications for Mobile and Cloudnick_garrod
This document discusses modernizing CICS applications for mobile and cloud. It summarizes IBM's work with two clients: Credit Bureau of Turkey and Nationwide. For Credit Bureau of Turkey, IBM helped implement CICS Web services, improve high availability with CICSplex, and upgrade development tools and processes. For Nationwide, IBM's focus areas included developing CICS applications using standard tools, improving high availability and performance with CICSplex, and enhancing the development environment with tools like Rational Developer for z. The document also briefly discusses plans for future work involving high availability, performance analysis, and continuous integration testing.
Educational seminar lessons learned from customer db2 for z os health check...John Campbell
This presentation presented at the Polish DB2 User Group introduces and discusses the most common issues uncovered by the DB2 for z/OS Development SWAT Team from 360 Degree DB2 for z/OS Continuous Availability Assessment (DB2 360) Studies.
DB2 Data Sharing Performance for BeginnersMartin Packer
This document provides an introductory overview of DB2 data sharing performance on IBM System z. It discusses key components of parallel sysplexes like coupling facilities, XCF, and data sharing structures. It also covers performance topics related to these components from both the z/OS and DB2 perspectives. The document aims to provide beginners with a high-level understanding of how to analyze and interpret DB2 data sharing performance numbers.
Cell Technology for Graphics and VisualizationSlide_N
The document discusses Cell technology for graphics and visualization. It provides an overview of the Cell architecture including its Power Processor Element (PPE) and Synergistic Processor Elements (SPEs). The PPE handles operating system tasks while the SPEs provide computational performance. The document outlines programming models for the Cell including function offload, application specific accelerators, computational acceleration, streaming, and a shared memory multiprocessor model. It also discusses heterogeneous threading and a single source compiler approach.
The document introduces the new mainframe and its capabilities. It outlines that mainframes are used by large organizations to host commercial databases and applications requiring high security and availability. Mainframes can process large volumes of different workloads concurrently. Typical mainframe roles include system programmers, operators, developers and administrators. Common operating systems are z/OS, z/VM, VSE, and Linux for zSeries.
Enterprise power systems transition to power7 technologysolarisyougood
This document summarizes an IBM presentation about Power7 technology. It introduces Power7 processors and systems, compares them to competitors' offerings, and highlights Power7's performance, reliability, availability, security and virtualization capabilities. Key points include Power7 having 8 cores with 32MB eDRAM L3 cache, outperforming Intel's best processors on major workloads, and delivering "mainframe-class" reliability with 99.997% availability.
QPACE - QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.)Heiko Joerg Schick
The document describes the QPACE supercomputer project which aims to build a supercomputer optimized for lattice QCD simulations using IBM PowerXCell 8i processors. Key aspects summarized are:
1) QPACE uses 256 node cards per rack, each with a PowerXCell 8i processor, to achieve 26 TFLOPS and 1 TB memory per rack.
2) Custom networks include a 3D torus for nearest neighbor communication and an interrupt tree for global operations.
3) The node card design features the PowerXCell processor, FPGA network processor, memory, and networking interfaces.
4) Early results found the hardware design worked well but network processor implementation and software deployment took longer than planned.
Short presentation I gave to the UKCMG 1-day mini-conference 15 October in London.
Covers 2 main aspects of Parallel Sysplex performance, both in the CPU area:
1) Comparing Type 70 view of CPU to Type 74-4.
2) Type 74-4 Structure-Level CPU and its role in Capacity Planning and Performance.
The document provides an overview of PowerAI, IBM's set of libraries for developing machine learning and deep learning applications. It discusses what PowerAI is, its hardware requirements, the differences between CPUs and GPUs for machine learning, how to use PowerAI components like TensorFlow and Theano, and tuning recommendations for PowerAI performance.
Visão geral do hardware do servidor System z e Linux on z - Concurso MainframeAnderson Bassani
Apresentação realizada no evento de premiação do Concurso Mainframe 2014 que foi realizado em São Paulo, IBM Tutóia. Tópicos apresentados incluíram: hardware System zEC12 e zBC12, Linux on z, O que o System z faz que outras plataformas não fazem e um caso real de uma empresa desenvolvedora de Software.
The document provides an overview of IBM i 7.1 including:
- IBM i 7.1 will deliver major new capabilities for workload optimization, integration with DB2, and resiliency.
- IBM i offers lower total cost of ownership than x86 systems, with costs averaging 41% less than x86/Windows and 47% less than x86/Linux.
- IBM i 7.1 announcement highlights include improvements to workload optimization using SSDs, integration with DB2 including XML and encryption support, high availability using PowerHA, and enhanced systems management capabilities.
The IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer works by offloading CPU-intensive query processing from DB2 for z/OS to specialized hardware. It defines logical data marts containing related tables and loads them into compressed, memory-resident formats on the accelerator. This provides an order of magnitude performance improvement for queries involving the accelerated tables. The optimizer is transparent to applications and preserves DB2's qualities of service while improving price/performance.
The document discusses Ceph storage deployments at IBM Research Zurich and on IBM's Softlayer cloud infrastructure. At IBM Research Zurich, an initial Ceph cluster using SSD storage reached capacity limits, so it was replaced with a larger cluster using HDD storage. IBM is also deploying Ceph on Softlayer for private managed cloud storage, using Ceph block storage with OpenStack. Future plans include improving multi-tenant access control and disaster recovery across data centers with Ceph.
This document discusses FPGA accelerators and the CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) technology in IBM Power Systems. It provides the following key points:
- FPGAs can be reprogrammed to act as microprocessors, ASICs, or CPUs and can run algorithms faster than CPUs through parallel processing or customized logic.
- CAPI allows FPGAs and other devices to access system memory coherently like CPUs, simplifying programming and removing the need for device drivers. This improves performance over traditional non-coherent interfaces.
- Examples show how CAPI enables numerical and parallel algorithms to run much faster on FPGAs by customizing logic versus running them on general-purpose
Presentazione IBM Flex System e System x Evento Venaria 14 ottobrePRAGMA PROGETTI
This document discusses IBM's sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo in 2014. It provides an overview of the transaction details, analyst reactions which were mostly positive, and commitments from both IBM and Lenovo to ensure a smooth transition and continued innovation. Key points include Lenovo paying $2.3 billion for the business, IBM continuing to provide support for 5 years, and both companies pledging commitment to customers and the server roadmap.
1) Power systems are increasingly virtualized, but IBM i currently lacks a way to control workloads on a system and cap specific workloads to prevent overrunning system capacity.
2) Workload groups would allow users to set the amount of processing capacity for a workload, capping it to a specified number of processors. This provides workload control and ensures unstable jobs do not impact performance.
3) Workload groups also help control licensing costs by allowing products to be licensed for less cores than the partition contains and enforcing that product is limited to the licensed number of cores.
Mpls conference 2016-data center virtualisation-11-marchAricent
Aricent’s presentation on “Micro VNFs and Micro service environment” on next generation Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) is heating up. In debate on micro services, carriers has requested communities to step up research on micro service deployments.
Aricent believes that existing VNFs, which comes directly from the physical appliances software are not rightly designed and are less suited for cloud operations. These first generation VNFs are replication of physical appliances, monolithic architecture and need more computational power. These are heavy with physical appliance platform features i.e. HA, ISSU, Nonstop Routing/Switching and they have lots of redundant code which may not be necessary on cloud. As cloud platform provides these feature through its inherent platform capabilities.
This document discusses EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage solutions. It provides an overview of EMC Isilon's market leadership in scale-out NAS, key trends in unstructured data growth, and how Isilon addresses next-generation workloads. The document also outlines Isilon's hardware and software features like its OneFS operating system, data protection and management tools, and product family which scales from high transactional to high density platforms.
Striving for excellence is a human trait shared by many, as we all try to be the best that we can in at least one area under our control. Achieving excellence is a little harder to accomplish; it requires an amount of hard work and dedication that only a select few are willing to deliver. Improving on excellence, on the other hand, requires that rare individual who sets his sights on being the best in the world at whatever he attempts and continues to work harder than everyone else, even after he has arrived at the pinnacle of his quest. Individuals like Olympic athletes Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt each set world records (in swimming and track), yet each continues to train even harder to break their own records and reap the rewards of these continuing efforts.
This same quality of continuing to improve on success is an essential requirement for every enterprise data center looking to improve upon the performance of its IT infrastructure, ensure the security and reliability of its environment, and continue to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of that infrastructure in the face of increasing demands. The deployment of new applications on new servers and the continuing explosion of data, which tends to be doubling every 12-to-18 months, are putting a strain on the budgets of every enterprise data center around the globe. Programs are being implemented to consolidate and virtualize both servers and storage to reduce the TCO and preserve valuable resources, both human and natural. By reducing the number of physical servers populating the data center, the CIO can reduce the number of systems administrators required to drive the IT infrastructure, as well as reducing the amount of energy necessary to power the data center, and the amount of floor space required to house it. These last two points are especially critical as enterprise data centers approach maximum capacity in both of these categories. In fact, if either is exceeded, the enterprise may be forced to build out a brand new data center at a cost of millions of dollars.
InfoSphere Streams Technical Overview - Use Cases Big Data - Jerome CHAILLOUXIBMInfoSphereUGFR
IBM InfoSphere Streams is a platform for processing streaming data in real-time. It allows for the construction of application graphs where data continuously flows between operators. The platform can handle high data volumes and varieties, providing low-latency analysis. It includes various pre-built operators and toolkits for integration, analytics, text processing, and more. Streams supports the development of applications across multiple nodes in a cluster and can automatically distribute and parallelize processing.
Munich 2016 - Z011597 Martin Packer - How To Be A Better Performance SpecialistMartin Packer
This document provides tips for performance specialists to improve their skills and become more valuable to their organizations. It recommends continuously learning new skills, gaining experience across different systems, engaging with industry communities, experimenting with new data visualization techniques, and keeping an innovative mindset. The goal is to add more value through creative problem solving while maintaining good relationships.
This document discusses techniques for understanding a customer's DB2 environment using readily available system data before speaking with DB2 specialists. It covers analyzing CPU usage, memory usage, I/O, coupling facility usage, XCF traffic, stored procedures, applications, workload manager configuration, DDF rules, and restart patterns using SMF records and other data to detect issues and understand normal behavior. The goal is to "bridge the gap in perspectives between DB2 and system performance specialists."
This presentation discusses managing the performance of address spaces in a z/OS system. It notes that typical systems have hundreds to thousands of diverse address spaces across LPARs. The presentation centers around SMF Type 30 records, discussing when to rely on common instrumentation for all address spaces versus using specific data for certain address spaces like CICS or data set records. It covers treating each address space as a "black box" initially, then distinguishing between long-running address spaces like CICS and DB2 versus batch jobs. Timestamp analysis of records is recommended to analyze steps in batch jobs.
Abstract:
So, it’s got a “tongue-in-cheek” title but what’s it all about?
I think one of the least well appreciated aspects of z/OS and its middleware is the richness of instrumentation it gives you: Here I describe it and just some of the ways you can get value from SMF.
While I'm aware MY concerns might not match YOUR concerns EXACTLY there's much common ground.
I'd like to make you smarter - or appear to be. :-)
Abstract:
Batch performance optimization remains a hot topic for many customers, whether merging workloads, supporting growth, removing cost or extending the online day.
This presentation outlines a structured methodology for optimizing the batch window, incorporating techniques written about in a Redbook written by experts from around the world. This methodology is well-structured and draws on information every installation should have access to.
The document is a presentation about evolving CPU management on IBM System z mainframes to account for new capabilities introduced in recent years. It discusses technologies like zAAP, zIIP, and ICF processors and how they are managed differently than general purpose CPUs. It also covers topics like workload capping, blocked workloads, hyperdispatch, and new SMF records that can provide useful data for monitoring and reporting on CPU usage in a dynamic environment. The presentation provides an overview of these concepts to help attendees evolve their approach to CPU management and performance reporting.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Letter and Document Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Sol...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on automated letter generation for Bonterra Impact Management using Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Interested in deploying letter generation automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
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How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...alexjohnson7307
Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen