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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 2, 2021

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ARM support for Spectrum Protect client

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes.
The persistent data are backed up by Spectrum Protect.
Due to current development on the HPC market we are looking (and also other sides we think) especially at ARM based systems. The reason is that this type of CPUs allows to run GPU accelerator on a compute node by using a host CPU with low power consumption.
But today the Spectrum Protect backup and archive client does not support any ARM based system.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 1, 2022

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 4, 2021

    RHEL (8+)
    The compute node will use ROCKY most properly

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 3, 2021

    This is interesting!
    I think it can be very good to add support of ARM, as there are many new techniques that are built on this architectures.
    The questions are, which dialects should it support? Assuming Linux, but there are varius dialects.

    As a CEO of spictera, we see this as a strategic to add ARM, as we have many IoT companies constructed on this platform.
    So it can be good to add a central storage using SPFS too

    https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/gsd/solutiondetails.do?&solution=56435

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