HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING EVALUATION

• US 20150295794A1
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Maher, Robert, Stahl, Elisabeth R., Taaffe-Hedglin, Clarisse T.
• Application Number:
  US14/501,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20150295794A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3428 Benchmarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual middleware or OS functionality using virtual machines to implement generic software techniques for error detection or fault masking G06F11/1484
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0823 characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes iteratively running a client application on two or more combinations of two or more hardware platforms and one or more software products, where the two or more hardware platforms and the one or more software products reside in an integrated evaluation appliance. The running of the client application on the two or more combinations is monitored by a computer processor. A result of running the client application on a first hardware platform and a result of running the client application on a second hardware platform are output, where the first hardware platform and the second hardware platform are among the two or more hardware platforms residing in the evaluation appliance.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

iteratively running a client application on two or more combinations of two or more hardware platforms and one or more software products, wherein the two or more hardware platforms and the one or more software products reside in an integrated evaluation appliance;

monitoring, by a computer processor, the running of the client application on the two more combinations; and

outputting a result of running the client application on a first hardware platform and a result of running the client application on a second hardware platform, wherein the first hardware platform and the second hardware platform are among the two or more hardware platforms residing in the evaluation appliance.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaluation appliance comprises a portal in addition to the two or more hardware platforms and the one or more software products, and wherein the portal is configured to monitor the running of the client application.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising running the client application on a virtualized hardware platform residing in the evaluation appliance.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the result of running the client application on the first hardware platform comprises outputting a recommendation for modifying the first hardware platform.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the result of running the client application on the first hardware platform and the result of running the client application on the second hardware platform comprises outputting results that are relative to a client'"'"'s predetermined goals for the client application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the result of running the client application on the first hardware platform comprises outputting an indication of scalability of the client application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the result of running the client application on the first hardware platform and the result of running the client application on the second hardware platform comprises outputting corresponding hardware platform, software stack information, and at least one of tuning notes, scalability capability, and tuning notes, for each of the two or more combinations of the two or more hardware platforms and the one or more software products.

8. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied thereon, the computer readable program code executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:

iteratively running a client application on two or more combinations of two or more hardware platforms and one or more software products, wherein the two or more hardware platforms and the one or more software products reside in an integrated evaluation appliance;

monitoring the running of the client application on the two more combinations; and

outputting a result of running the client application on a first hardware platform and a result of running the client application on a second hardware platform, wherein the first hardware platform and the second hardware platform are among the two or more hardware platforms residing in the evaluation appliance.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the evaluation appliance comprises a portal in addition to the two or more hardware platforms and the one or more software products, and wherein the portal is configured to monitor the running of the client application.

10. The computer program product of claim 8, the method further comprising running the client application on a virtualized hardware platform residing in the evaluation appliance.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein outputting the result of running the client application on the first hardware platform comprises outputting a recommendation for modifying the first hardware platform.

12. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein outputting the result of running the client application on the first hardware platform and the result of running the client application on the second hardware platform comprises outputting results that are relative to a client'"'"'s predetermined goals for the client application.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein outputting the result of running the client application on the first hardware platform comprises outputting an indication of scalability of the client application.

14. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein outputting the result of running the client application on the first hardware platform and the result of running the client application on the second hardware platform comprises outputting corresponding hardware platform, software stack information, and at least one of tuning notes, scalability capability, and tuning notes, for each of the two or more combinations of the two or more hardware platforms and the one or more software products.