IBM eServer Cluster 1600 and PSSP 3.4 Cluster Enhancements

This redbook applies to PSSP Version 3, Release 4 for use with the AIX Operating System Version 5, Release 1, and Version 4, Release 3, modification 3.

This redbook details the new features and functions of PSSP 3.4, including the supported hardware. The redbook describes the changes to the product, allowing cluster professionals a convenient and detailed look at the latest PSSP enhancements.

Other SP-related products have also announced new releases. This redbook discusses the following:

- General Parallel File System (GPFS) 1.5
- LoadLeveler 3.1
- Parallel Environment (PE) 3.2
- Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) 3.3 and Parallel ESSL 2.3

This redbook is for IBM customers, Business Partners, IBM technical and marketing professionals and anyone seeking an understanding of the new hardware and software components and improvements included in this IBM eServer announcement.

Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. Hardware support
Chapter 3. Software enhancements
Chapter 4. Installation, migration, and coexistence
Chapter 5. Security enhancements
Chapter 6. Parallel programming
Chapter 7. LoadLeveler 3.1
Chapter 8. GPFS 1.5

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Publish Date
20 December 2001

Last Update
11 January 2002

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Author(s)

Dino Quintero is a project leader at the ITSO, Poughkeepsie Center. He has 10 years experience in the information technology field. He holds a BS in computer science and an MS degree in computer science/information systems from Marist College. Before joining the ITSO, he worked as a performance analyst for the Enterprise Systems Group, and as a disaster recovery architect for IBM Global Services. He has been with IBM since 1996. His areas of expertise include enterprise backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning and implementation, RS/6000 SP, and pSeries servers. Currently, he focuses on RS/6000 Cluster Technology by writing redbooks and teaching IBM classes worldwide.

• Dino Quintero

JinHoon Lee is an AIX system support specialist for IBM Korea. He has worked with the RS/6000 and IBMeServer pSeries post-sales support team since joining IBM 5 years ago. His areas of expertise include AIX, system performance tuning, High Availability Cluster Multi-Processor (HACMP), PSSP, and Tivoli Storage Manage (TSM).

• JinHoon Lee

Andrei Socoliuc is an IT specialist at IBM Global Services in Romania. He provides technical support for the RS/6000 and IBMeServer pSeries. He is an IBM Certified Specialist in AIX and HACMP. His areas of expertise include AIX, HACMP, PSSP, and TSM. He holds an MS degree in computer science from the Politehnica University in Bucharest.

• Andrei Socoliuc

Tomaz Vincek is a senior IT specialist working at the IBM International Technical Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a team leader of the RS/6000 and IBMeServer pSeries technical support group for Central and Eastern Europe/Middle East/Africa (CEMA). He is an RS/6000 SP expert and a member of the high-end business intelligence technical focus group for CEMA.

• Tomaz Vincek

ISBN
0738423440

IBM Form Number
SG24-6604-00

Number of pages
216