This book contains basic installation and tuning information for the MRG Realtime component of Red Hat Enterprise MRG. Red Hat Enterprise MRG is a high performance distributed computing platform consisting of three components:
Messaging — Cross platform, high performance, reliable messaging using the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard.
Realtime — Consistent low-latency and predictable response times for applications that require microsecond latency.
Grid — Distributed High Throughput (HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC).
All three components of Red Hat Enterprise MRG are designed to be used as part of the platform, but can also be used separately.
Many industries and organizations need extremely high performance computing and may require low and predictable latency, especially in the financial and telecommunications industries. Latency, or response time, is defined as the time between an event and system response and is generally measured in microseconds (μs). For most general applications running under a Linux environment, basic performance tuning can improve latency sufficiently. For those industries where latency not only needs to be low, but also accountable and predictable, Red Hat have now developed a 'drop-in' kernel replacement that provides this. MRG Realtime is distributed as part of Red Hat Enterprise MRG and provides seamless integration with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1. MRG Realtime offers clients the opportunity to define, measure, configure and record latency times across their organization.