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IBM Dynamic Application Virtualization

A technology that enables computationally-intensive applications to take advantage of accelerated libraries on remote, back-end systems (including Cell Broadband Engine), reducing time to deployment and disruption to business.

Date Posted: September 27, 2007

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Platform requirements

Operating systems:

  • Client: One of the following:
    • Microsoft Windows XP SP2
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux® Client 5.1
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 on zOS.
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for x86_64

  • Server: One of the following:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.1 or 5.2 on x86 nodes
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.1 or 5.2 on IBM® BladeCenter® QS21
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.2 on IBM BladeCenter QS22
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 on zOS.

Hardware: 500 MB hard drive space for installation (recommended)

Software:

  • For Windows clients, one of the following:
    • Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 (recommended)
    • Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2003
    • Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2005 and Microsoft Platform SDK
  • For Linux clients:
    • Gcc-c++.i386
    • Gcc4.1.2-14.el5
  • For zOS clients: Gcc 4.1.1

Installation instructions

Client-side installation for Windows:

  1. Download and install DavClientInstall.exe on the client machine where the target application resides.
  2. Follow the instructions in the installer. By default, the client software will be installed to C:\Program Files\IBM\IBM DAV\Client.

Client-side installation for Linux:

  1. Download and install dav-client.i386.rpm on the client machine where the target application resides.
  2. Log in with root access and run the following command: 
    Rpm –ivh dav-client.1386.rpm

Client-side developer installation for Windows:

  1. Download and install DavVirtualizerInstall.exe on a client machine. (This component will be used to generate client- and server-side code in order to prepare the application for function off-loading.) The client can be the same machine on which the target application resides or a different machine, but the client software is required for running the Virtualizer component of IBM Dynamic Application Virtualization.
  2. Follow the instructions in the installer. The software will be installed to C:\Program Files\IBM\IBM DAV\Virtualizer.

Client-side developer installation for Linux:

  1. Download and install dav-virtualizer.i386.rpm on a client machine. (This component will be used to generate client- and server-side code in order to prepare the application for function off-loading.) The client can be the same machine on which the target application resides or a different machine, but the client software is required for running the Virtualizer component of IBM Dynamic Application Virtualization.
  2. Log in with root access and run the following command: 
    Rpm -ivh dav-virtualizer.i386.rpm
    The software will be installed to /usr/ibmdav/virtualizer.

Server-side installation:

  1. Download dav-server.i386.rpm for x86 server machines or dav-server.ppc64.rpm for IBM BladeCenter QS21.
  2. Log in with root access and run the following command: 
    rpm -iVh dav-server.i386.rpm or 
   rpm -iVh dav-server.ppc64.rpm.
    The server software will be installed to /usr/ibmdav/server.

For further details on configuration and use, please refer to the included files IBMDAVQSG.pdf and IBMDavUserGuide.pdf.


Download description

Filename File size Description
dav-server.i386.rpm    5308KBIBM DAV Server side software, installed on the remote x86 node where the application library will be deployed for computation of client requests.
dav-server.ppc64.rpm    4735KBIBM DAV Server side software, installed on the remote IBM BladeCenter QS2x node where the application library will be deployed for computation of client requests.
dav-server.s390.rpm    176KBIBM DAV Service Broker software, installed on zLinux.
Dav-client.i386.rpm    8761KBIBM DAV Client side software for Linux, installed on the client where the requesting application resides.
Dav-client.s390.rpm    5936KBIBM DAV Client(31 bit) side software for zLinux, installed on the client where the requesting application resides.
Dav-client.x86_64.rpm    7932KBIBM DAV Client side software for SLES Linux x86_64. Installed on the client where the requesting application resides.
Dav-Virtualizer.i386.rpm    51628KBIBM DAV Virtualization software for Linux, installed on the client where the application
Dav-Virtualizer.s390.rpm    52824KBIBM DAV Virtualizer software for zLinux, installed on the client where the application developer will use the Virtualizer component to generate client and server side code to prepare the application for function offloading. The client software is also a prerequisite to running the IBM DAV Virtualizer.
DavClientInstall.exe    11741KBIBM DAV Client side software for Windows, installed on the client where the requesting application resides.
DavVirtualizerInstall.exe    55676KBIBM DAV Virtualizer software for Windows, installed on the client where the application developer will use the Virtualizer component to generate client and server side code to prepare the application for function off-loading. The client software is also a pre-requisite to running IBM DAV Virtualizer.
IBMDavUserGuide.pdf    440KBIBM DAV User Guide for full installation and user instructions.
IBM_DAV_Demo.zip    12632KBA short movie demonstrating how to run the BLAS function DGEMM from an Excel spreadsheet using IBM DAV to remotely execute the function on a Cell/B.E. BladeCenter.

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