Supported Systems

Platform Symphony 5.0

The configurations listed on this page apply to both Platform Symphony and Platform Symphony Developer Edition.

• Supported Operating Systems
• Supported Browsers
• Supported Processor-core-thread Detection
• Eclipse 3.2.2 Plug-in Reference Platforms
• Eclipse 3.3.0 Plug-in Reference Platforms
• Platform Symphony Add-ons

Supported Operating Systems

Notes:

1. Windows 2000. Requires the memory heap functions from kernel32.dll version 5.0.2195.7006 dated December 30, 2004 or later.
   Install SP4 and all latest patches and check that the kernel32.dll version is correct.

2. The Professional versions of Windows (2000 and XP) can only simultaneously connect up to 10 other computers over the network.
   This limitation mainly applies to management hosts because they need to connect to many other machines.
   Clients and compute hosts should be OK since they only need to connect to a few management hosts such as the master and SSM (should be fewer than 10).
   Refer to the following for more information:

   http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;314882
   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/122920/EN-US/
   http://proprietary.clendons.co.nz/licenses/eula/windowsxpprofessional-eula.htm

3. Windows 2003. Windows 2003 default system policies prevent users who do not have administrative permissions
   from installing Platform Symphony.

   To work around the problem, have your Windows administrator perform the following steps:
   1. Open a group policy.
   2. Select Run > mmc > add/remove snap-in > Group policy object editor > ok.
   3. Edit the local computer policy.
   4. Go to local computer policy > computer configuration > Administrative Template > Windows component > Windows installer.
   5. Open Disable Windows Installer policy.
   6. Set it to enable.
   7. Select Never on the drop-down list.
   8. Click Apply. You may need to log out or restart the host.
   
   

4. Management hosts support multi-home.

5. Client hosts support DHCP.

Supported Browsers

Supported Processor-Core-Thread Detection

Notes for multi-core/thread detection:

1. PCT limitations: For all architecture/operating system combinations, we assume each physical processor implements the same number of cores
   and each core implements the same number of threads. If this condition does not hold, LIM will incorrectly detect PCTs.

2. PCT architecture / operating system specific limitations:

   • Solaris - For versions of Solaris that do not support the chip_id field (< Solaris 2.7), PCT detection code assumes 1 core per processor and 1 thread per core.
     For versions of Solaris that do not support the core_id field (< Solaris 10 update 2), LIM contains a processor specific workaround.
     If the work around does not apply, LIM assumes 1 thread per core.

     The workaround works like the following:
     If the machine type is "sun4v" and there is one physical processor, and there are 24 virtual processors,
     LIM assumes that this is a 6 core UltraSparc T1 processor.
     16 virtual processors imply a 4 core UltraSparc T1 and 32 virtual processors imply an 8 core UltraSparc T1 processor.

   • VMWare/Xen/Virtual PC - If LIM detects that it is running under a virtual machine, it will assume a single core and a single thread.

Eclipse 3.2.2 Plug-in Reference Platforms

Eclipse 3.3.0 Plug-in Reference Platforms

Platform Symphony Add-ons

• Data Affinity: Platform Symphony Data Affinity is a breakthrough in solving the data latency bottlenecks caused by moving large data sets around on a compute grid.
  This add-on product allows Platform Symphony to significantly improve performance by taking into account data locality when scheduling workload.

• Multi-Core Optimizer: Platform Symphony Multi-Core Optimizer makes the most out of multi-core servers - whether your application is multi-threaded or not.
  Application performance and scalability are improved through reduced IO and memory contention in multi-core environments, with increased utilization from running multiple IO-intensive tasks per core, efficiently matching resources with non-uniform workload.

• Data collection and reporting: Historical data collection metrics, basic EGO reports, basic Symphony reports.
  The data collection feature supports Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, and MS SQL Server 2005 to store cluster data.
  Apache Derby is supported for demo purposes. Note, however, that Apache Derby is not certified for production use.

• Platform Symphony Connector for Microsoft Excel: supported on Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2003 SP2, 2007