Let’s face it - IT infrastructure is expensive. This is especially true of the type of infrastructure used for clustered High Performance Computing (HPC) and analytic applications. For people not familiar with distributed workload management, claims around cost-savings can sound fanciful, so in short this post I wanted to take the time to clearly explain some of the money savers. Here are the ten effective ways that IBM Platform Computing software can help you do more with less: Running applications more efficiently: While we often focus on topics like clock speed and bandwidth as measures of performance, in distributed applications latency is what matters. This is especially true as computers get faster. If I have a series of tasks where each executes for 2 seconds, but I spend a full-second getting each task scheduled to a cluster node, I’ve just lost 33% of my productivity and added 50% to my cost. Platform Computing schedulers avoid this pitfall by providing as low as sub-millisecond scheduling latency removing the “white space” between jobs and keeping infrastructure close to 100% utilized.   Sharing infrastructure more liberally: Everyone appreciates the value of sharing, but in complex IT environments it is often easier said than done. Various technical barriers and concerns about ownership, security and SLAs can cause line-of-business owners to purposely spend more on replicated infrastructure just to avoid these... [Continue Reading]

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