Case Study: Government Research Laboratory achieves 24/7 HPC availability and faster query optimization with IBM Data Server Manager (IBM)

Driving cutting-edge high-performance computing research by optimizing database management

Government Research Laboratory needed to keep its high-performance computing (HPC) IBM DB2 clusters available 24/7 with a lean DBA team while supporting researchers and developers who are not database specialists. To address frequent query-performance issues and meet its 95% availability mandate, the laboratory worked with IBM, deploying IBM Data Server Manager alongside its DB2 environment.

IBM implemented IBM Data Server Manager, which was rolled out in one week (20 minutes to get running on day one) and adopted by all developers within two months. The solution empowered developers to find and fix slow SQL themselves, eliminated time‑consuming DBA work, improved DB2 availability for HPC workloads, and increased utilization of HPC resources—helping the laboratory maintain high availability and support cutting‑edge research.