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1 Support and Maintenance Kristi Jacobson kjake@us.ibm.com 7/15/08
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Blue Gene/P Support Overview Problem Management Use IBM’s standard problem management database (Retain) Problem reporting via: Phone (geography specific) Software Service Request (SSR) on the web – URL: https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/ssr/loginhttps://techsupport.services.ibm.com/ssr/login * Send an email to kjake@us.ibm.com after you’ve registeredkjake@us.ibm.com Hours of Support Support is provided M-F during normal business hours IBM will attempt to respond to your problem Sev 1: within 2 business hours Sev 2: within 4 business hours Sev 3: next business day Sev 4: next business day In general, response times are much shorter Reporting ability is 24/7
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Blue Gene/P Support Overview Code Maintenance Central distribution site (secured) https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=BGP-BLUEGENEP Blue Gene /P code fixes New code releases Technical Documentation Subscription Service https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd Redbooks http://w3.itso.ibm.com/cgi-bin/searchsite.cgi?query=blue+gene http://w3.itso.ibm.com/cgi-bin/searchsite.cgi?query=blue+gene Blue Gene/P System Administration Blue Gene/P Safety Considerations Blue Gene/P Application Development High Performance Computing Toolkit for Blue Gene/P GPFS Multicluster With IBM Blue Gene Solution KnowledgeBase (secured) http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/support/i_dir/IBMBlueGeneLKB.nsf/wall http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/support/i_dir/IBMBlueGeneLKB.nsf/wall Problem/resolution summaries, how-to information, etc.
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Blue Gene/P Software Support Blue Gene/P Core Compute Node Kernel (CNK) MPI support for HW implementation and Abstract Device Interface Core Monitoring & Control System (CMCS) System Diagnostics GNU Toolchain Patches for CNK BG/P changes to support GNU XL Fortran Runtime for BG/P BG/P runtime extensions XL C/C++ Runtime for BG/P BG/P runtime extensions
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IBM Software Support (SWMA*) XL Fortran v11.1 for Linux XL C/C++ Advanced Edition v9.0 for Linux DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition v9.1 IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) for Linux on Power [PRPQ] LoadLeveler for Linux on Power [PRPQ] Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL) for Linux on Power [PRPQ] Cluster Systems Management (CSM) for Linux on Power * Covered by IBM Software Maintenance Agreement
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Non-IBM Software Support MPI (MPICH2) Library Support: Argonne National Lab SLES10 Support: SuSE or IBM Contract GNU Toolchain (glibc, gcc, binutils, gdb) Support: www.gnu.org Other (Java Runtime [JRE], Python, Perl)…
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Hardware Support Blue Gene/P Hardware Support: Blue Gene/P Maintenance Rack contents Cables NOTE: Hardware will only be replaced at the direction of IBM Rochester. Other IBM Hardware Support: IBM Hardware Warranty/Maintenance Front end node (FEN) Service node (SN) Other… Non-IBM Hardware Switch, etc. supported by manufacturer
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Support Flow
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BG/P Support - Access Numbers Bulgaria (GMT + 2 hrs) During normal business hours (M-F 8:30-17:00) +359 2 9693650 +359 2 9733199 Outside normal business hours +359 888641909 United Kingdom +44 870 010 1952 Select software support for all issues (HW/SW) North America 888-888-4130 Option 1 – Hardware Option 2 – Software Toll Number: 507-286-6092
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BG/P Support – Escalation Paths First Level – Rochester Support Center Primary Contact Brian Lueck, BG/P Support Manager507-286-6500 lueck@us.ibm.com Secondary Contact Kristi Jacobson, BG/P Support PM507-286-6633 kjake@us.ibm.com Must Answer Number Duty Manager507-286-6004 Please specify Blue Gene Customer Second Level – Rochester Project Office Report through IBM STG client project managers.
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What to do next: Bookmark URL: http://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/bluegene/index.html Create shared group email address (ID used in next step) Register ID on the web: https://www.ibm.com/account/profile/us?page=reg Send ID to kjake@us.ibm.com The IBM remote teams needs remote access information. Send that info to kjake@us.ibm.com
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