Originally posted by: TonyPearson
This week, I was in beautiful Melbourne, Australia for IBM Systems Technical University. On Wednesday evening, we had a poster session.
(I have so many photos that I will split this post up into topics. This post will focus on posters related to IBM Power systems. See my other posts for storage and IBM Z.)
Ding! IBM i Systems Management redefined with SQL
A poster presentation should trigger question-and-answer sessions, and the exchange of ideas and information regarding your topic.
Scott Forstie, IBM Db2 for i Business Architect, coined the phrase "Scott's Query Language", focused on Data Services for Db2 database on IBM i operating system. His design took several charts, printed in landscape mode, and organized in 3 columns of four charts each. His "title" page was printed twice, and placed on the left and right sides.
Scott explained GROUP_PTF_CURRENCY, LICENSE_EXPIRATION_CHECK and ACTIVE_JOB_INFO. I am not familiar with any of these things, but I enjoyed how passionate Scott was. He even had business cards for people to get more information at: [ibm.biz/Db2foriServices]
IBM Spectrum Scale with Hortonworks Data Platform
Chris Maestas, IBM Global Senior Solutions Architect, IBM and Par Hettinga, IBM Global SDI Enablement Leader, created this poster.
Hortonworks is a leading innovator in the industry, creating, distributing and supporting enterprise-ready open data platforms and modern data applications. They focus on driving innovation in open source communities such as Apache Hadoop, NiFi, and Spark. Their product, Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), runs on both x86 and Power systems.
The poster design was clean, with basically three enlarged presentation slides. On the top, it explains that Hortonworks now supports IBM Spectrum Scale for storage of files and objects to be analyzed by Hadoop. On the bottom left, it shows how Spectrum Scale eliminates the ingest-and-discard approach used by other HDFS-based systems. On the bottom right, an architecture diagram to build your own "data lake".
Optimizing Power Performance with Affinity Groups – Real World 40Gbit LPM Results / Lessons Learnt
This poster employed a unique 1-6-6 design. Top slide was for title and author: Stephen Diwell, Senior Power Systems Engineer, DXC Technologies
In the middle, the poster had six traditional text-only presentation slides, arranged in two rows of three. LPAR Affinity Groups provides you the ability to give the Hypervisor a hint that you would like this group of LPARs to be located on processor Chips that are closer to each other. Use Affinity Groups to help the Hypervisor place LPARs nearer to the VIO Servers. LPARs that share common resources, like the Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters within a VIO servers will obtain better performance and adapter throughput the closer they are. The lighting on some of these posters was really poor, and perhaps too dark to read small fonts like this.
At the bottom were performance bar chart results, in three rows of two. I like the use of color for the graphs. For a network job with 8 threads, Stephen achieved a 54% increase in network bandwidth for LPARs communicating on the same Chip to those communicating between Nodes in the E800 frame.
Sundata Power Server Cloud offering
Leave it to the marketing department of a local cloud service provider to turn their poster into an advertising billboard! This one was presented by Kon Kakanis, Managing Director, Sundata Pty Ltd
The Sundata poster encouraged people to move their AIX, IBM i and Linux on POWER workloads to their "PowerCloud" platform. They summarized their advantages into four bullet points:
- Reliable and cost-effective partnership
- Advice, Guidance and Support
- Migration, management and support services
- Located in Sydney and Brisbane
Founded in 1986, Sundata is an Australia-based organization to help their clients transform into the Cloud, select and deploy IT hardware and keep the lights on with ongoing support and managed services. They have over 100 corporations, government departments and schools enjoying a close and ongoing relationship.
The large fonts, simple design, and the cute cat-in-a-cape logo in the lower right corner captured peoples attention!
In between reading posters and talking to everyone, it was good to take a quick look out the floor-to-ceiling windows. At 297 meters, Eureka Tower has some amazing views. Here is one of the Yarra river and Central Business District.
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