A large number of system and application software programs developed by IBM can be run on the SP system. For example:
Distributed, network-wide job management with parallel batch jobs a specialty
Parallel application development and execution
Message passing parallel task communications
Library of subroutines for use by applications
Set of advanced parallel subroutines which extend the ESSL program
Ensures that critical resources are available for processing
Concurrent shared access to files spanning multiple disks located on multiple nodes
Performance monitoring
Enterprise network management
Problem management
Printing support
Schedules production batch workload in a distributed AIX environment