IBM Redbooks

Richard Rosenthal

Dino Quintero

Richard Wale

Robert Simon

Puneet Chaudhary

Brian Herr

Steven Normann

Marcelo Ramos

Marian Tomescu

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication describes IBM SpectrumTM Scale, which is a scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, built on proven IBM General Parallel File System (GPFSTM) technology. Providing reliability, performance and scalability, IBM Spectrum ScaleTM can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements. This publication can help you install, tailor, and configure the environment, which is created from a combination of physical and logical components: hardware, operating system, storage, network, and applications. Knowledge of these components is key for planning an environment. However, to appreciate potential benefit first requires a simpler understanding of what IBM Spectrum Scale actually provides. This publication illustrates several example deployments and scenarios to demonstrate how IBM Spectrum Scale can be implemented. This paper is for technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists). These professionals are responsible for delivering cost-effective cloud services and big data solutions, helping to uncover insights among client data and be able to take actions to optimize business results, product development, and scientific discoveries.

Implementing IBM Spectrum Scale

Bing He

Chris Parsons

Bruno C. Faria

Alfonso Jara

Shota Tsukamoto

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a guide about the IBM PowerAI Deep Learning solution. This book provides an introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL), IBM PowerAI, and components of IBM PowerAI, deploying IBM PowerAI, guidelines for working with data and creating models, an introduction to IBM SpectrumTM Conductor Deep Learning Impact (DLI), and case scenarios. IBM PowerAI started as a package of software distributions of many of the major DL software frameworks for model training, such as TensorFlow, Caffe, Torch, Theano, and the associated libraries, such as CUDA Deep Neural Network (cuDNN). The IBM PowerAI software is optimized for performance by using the IBM Power SystemsTM servers that are integrated with NVLink. The AI stack foundation starts with servers with accelerators. graphical processing unit (GPU) accelerators are well-suited for the compute-intensive nature of DL training, and servers with the highest CPU to GPU bandwidth, such as IBM Power Systems servers, enable the high-performance data transfer that is required for larger and more complex DL models. This publication targets technical readers, including developers, IT specialists, systems architects, brand specialist, sales team, and anyone looking for a guide about how to understand the IBM PowerAI Deep Learning architecture, framework configuration, application and workload configuration, and user infrastructure.

IBM PowerAI: Deep Learning Unleashed on IBM Power Systems Servers

Sebastien Chabrolles

Chi Hui Chen

Murali Dhandapani

Talor Holloway

Chandrakant Jadhav

Sae Kee Kim

Sijo Kurian

Bharath Raj

Ronan Resende

Bjorn Roden

Niranjan Srinivasan

William Zanatta

Zhi Zhang

This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses performance tuning topics to help leverage the virtualization strengths of the POWER® platform to solve clients' system resource utilization challenges, and maximize system throughput and capacity. We examine the performance monitoring tools, utilities, documentation, and other resources available to help technical teams provide optimized business solutions and support for applications running on IBM POWER systems' virtualized environments. The book offers application performance examples deployed on IBM Power SystemsTM utilizing performance monitoring tools to leverage the comprehensive set of POWER virtualization features: Logical Partitions (LPARs), micro-partitioning, active memory sharing, workload partitions, and more. We provide a well-defined and documented performance tuning model in a POWER system virtualized environment to help you plan a foundation for scaling, capacity, and optimization . This book targets technical professionals (technical consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for providing solutions and support on IBM POWER systems, including performance tuning.

IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing

Richard Wale

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