Min hardware config for PX

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Min hardware config for PX

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Hi,

Can anybody, somebody, nobody, let me know what is the min hardware configuration required to run PX on RS6000 AIX5.1. :?

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nageshn wrote:Can anybody, somebody, nobody, let me know what is the min hardware configuration required to run PX on RS6000 AIX5.1.
Minimum? PX? Might as well stick to Server. From the Install and Upgrade Guide (dsupgde.pdf) for 6.x:

You need the following disk space.
On the server:
• 150 to 200 MB to install the DataStage server
• 3 MB per project to install the DataStage server
• Sufficient storage space for any data that is to be held in DataStage
tables or files
• Additional space to allow for temporary data storage while a
DataStage job is running
• 40 MB for Data Direct driver components for ODBC connections

The Parallel Extender runs on systems that meet the following
requirements:
• 200 MB of free disk space for product installation
• 128 - 256 MB or more of memory per processing node, depending
on your application
• At least 500 MB of scratch disk space per processing node
• To run parallel jobs, you need the C++ compiler specific to your
platform:
– For AIX, Visual Age C++ 5.0.2.0
– for Compaq Tru64, Compaq C++ 6.2
– for HP-UX, HP ANSI C++ A.3.30
– for Sun Solaris, SunPro C++ 6.0
These are in addition to the other system requirements.

-T.J.
Developer of DataStage Parallel Engine (Orchestrate).
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Post by ray.wurlod »

And what Teej quoted are minima. More is better. Just in case you're new to PX, "processing node" can mean a CPU or set of CPUs in an SMP environment, or a CPU or set of CPUs on the one host in an MPP environment.
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Also, a node is defined by your configuration file. So you have control over how many nodes a job would run on.

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