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Creating a high availability setup for Linux on Power

Krishna Voora and Sahitya Jain

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Performance of Scylla running on IBM Power Systems

Beth Hoffman, Vlad Zolotarov, Thomas Chen, and Sandy Kao

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ISV solution ecosystem for Hortonworks on IBM Power Systems

Beth Hoffman

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Enabling parallel Linux operating system deployment over a network on IBM PowerVM

Hariharan Sundaresh Reddy and Sachin Sant

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A deep dive into the new software-defined converged infrastructure for SAS Foundation mixed workloads

Brian Porter, Harry Seifert , Beth Hoffman, Narayana Pattipati, Ben Smith , Matthew Sheard, and Tony Brown

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Setting up Apache OpenWhisk on IBM Power on a single-node, on-premises serverless framework

Sudipta Biswas

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SAP HANA and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) integration with SAP HANA Spark Controller running on IBM Power Systems

Beth Hoffman and Narayana Pattipati

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MongoDB backup and restore methodology using IBM Spectrum Protect for Linux on Power

Beth Hoffman and Calvin Sze

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OpenPOWER GPU-enabled architecture performance enhancement using the Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) drop-in acceleration

Manish Modani, Aditya Nitsure , Thomas J. Heller, and Joan McComb

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OpenPOWER firmware with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) features

Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi

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SAS software with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) running on IBM POWER8

Beth Hoffman and Narayana Pattipati

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Continuous monitoring of server resources utilization using custom scripts

Monitoring IT infrastructure is essential to ensure its stability. Choosing an efficient, scalable,customizable, and light-weight solution for this has always been a challenge with changing requirements. Custom scripts can be used to achieve this smartly unlike the agent-based monitoring method in which all data defaulted by the monitoring tool used will be collected. This article describes the custom script method for monitoring system resources. In this method, the data collector(s) scripts running on data collector node will poll the target systems for data and so can decide on what data to be pulled.

Kiruthikalakshmi Periasamy

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OpenPOWER secure and trusted boot part 2 - Protecting system firmware with OpenPOWER secure boot

Protection of system firmware against malicious attack is paramount to server security. If an attacker is able to inject malicious code at the firmware level, no security measure at the operating system level can fully guarantee the trust of the system. IBM OpenPOWER servers support secure boot of system firmware to ensure the system boots only authorized firmware. When the system boots, each firmware component is verified against a cryptographic signature and integrity-checked against a secure hash of the component. If any check fails, secure boot prevents the system from booting until the problem is corrected.

Dave Heller and Nageswara Sastry

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An open source solution for dockerizing STAF and LTP on IBM Power Systems

Vinutha GS, Sasi Bindu, and Chethan Jain

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Best practices and basic evaluation benchmarks: IBM Power System S822LC for high-performance computing (HPC)

This article is a quick reference guide for IBM Power System S822LC for high-performance computing (HPC) system users to set processor and GPU configuration to achieve best performance for GPU accelerated applications. Before running an application, users need to make sure that the system is performing to the best in terms of processor frequency and memory bandwidth, GPU compute capacity, and memory bandwidth.

Pidad Gasfar D'Souza

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Digital Business Start trial offer for IBM Power Enterprise Systems with Hortonworks Data Platform

Yogesh Patgar, Donna Ball, and Arun Sar

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Videos

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Turbo LAMP on IBM Power Systems advantage over x86 Haswell

This video illustrates the advantages of running the Magento e-Commerce application on POWER8 vs x86/Haswell.

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IBM LinuxONE and Open Source Demo

demonstrates the new IBM LinuxONE system for scalable financial trading at the LinuxCon 2015 conference. The demo show multiple data loads streaming via Maria DB, MongoDB, Spark Analytics, Chef, Docker and PostgreSQL.