Heavy Lift Computing

Ian Tree  28 August 2013 13:23:10

Heavy Lift Computing

What is it?

We use the term "Heavy Lift Computing" to denote any IT project that has one or more of the following characteristics.

• Large data volumes to be moved and/or transformed
• Large numbers of objects that must undergo multiple state changes
• Rigid deadlines
• The "Mission Impossible" tag

Typical of these types of projects would be the transformations associated with mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate spin-offs (de-mergers), IT platform migrations, IT infrastructure consolidations and changes in operational IT sourcing models. In all of these projects you typically find a fixed deadline for completion driven by operational or business imperatives along with an undefined number of transformations on an ill-defined volume of data.

Some research and development in the area of "High Throughput Computing" (HTC) have a bearing on the discipline of HLC however the problem domain in the enterprise is wholly different from that in the scientific arena and introduces a different set of priorities and drivers.

The Domino eXplorer tool set has been designed to address many of the technical challenges involved in Domino based HLC projects.

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Information	Source Packages	Documentation	Articles
Background DX Reference Environments DX Development Environments DX Support DX Services Frequently Asked Questions License	DX Common Code QCopy QMove QACLMorph RDBCreate DXIPA DXTell SPZap	DX Application Design Guide DX Kernel API Reference DX Component Architecture DX Class Catalogue Using QCopy Using QMove Using QACLMorph Using RDBCreate Using DXIPA Using DXTell Using SPZap	Heavy Lift Computing Autonomic throughput optimisation

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