Best Practice Guide – IBM Power 775

The IBM Power 775 (IH) supercomputing server is a highly scalable system with extreme parallel processing performance and dense, modular packaging. It is based on IBM Power7 architecture and was designed by IBM within the US DARPA's HPCS (High Productivity Computing Systems) Program. This best practice guide provides information about IBM Power 775 architecture machines in order to enable users of these systems to achieve good performance of their applications. The guide covers a wide range of topics, from the detailed description of the hardware, through information about the basic production environment, to information about porting and submitting jobs and tools and strategies for analysing and improving the performance of applications.