Dynamic Logical PARtitioning on the AIX-PPC Platform

The main objective of this project (DLPAR) is to design an architecture and a prototype for the movement of hardware resources in and out of an AIX image running in a Logical PARtition dynamically and non-disruptively, i.e. without requiring reboots. Examples of hardware resources are: processors, memory, IO, and nodes. The PPC system to be partitioned may be a PPC-SMP or a PPC-NUMA system which consists of a set of SMPs connected together via the Federation switch and shared memory adapters to form a NUMA system.

We are also studying and simulating the automatic movement of hardware resources across partitions due to workload demands of the partitions.

Project lead / contact: Joefon Jann ( joefon@us.ibm.com 8-862-3077 or (914)945-3077 )
Other project members: Sarma Burugula, Pratap Pattnaik, Luke Browning, Tom Mathews, Niteesh Dubey.
Updated on Feb. 28, 2001. Created on June 7, 2000.