This IBM® Redbooks® publication highlights IBM Technical Computing as a flexible infrastructure for clients looking to reduce capital and operational expenditures, optimize energy usage, or re-use the infrastructure.

This book strengthens IBM SmartCloud® solutions, in particular IBM Technical Computing clouds, with a well-defined and documented deployment model within an IBM System x® or an IBM Flex System™. This provides clients with a cost-effective, highly scalable, robust solution with a planned foundation for scaling, capacity, resilience, optimization, automation, and monitoring.

This book is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for providing cloud-computing solutions and support.

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.

Dino Quintero is a complex solutions project leader and IBM Senior Certified IT Specialist with the ITSO in Poughkeepsie, NY. His areas of knowledge include enterprise continuous availability, enterprise systems management, system virtualization, technical computing, and clustering solutions. He is an Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist. Dino holds a Master of Computing Information Systems degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Marist College.

Rodrigo Ceron is a Master Inventor and Consultant in IBM Lab Services and Training Latin America, in Brazil. He has 13 years of experience in the UNIX/Linux area and nine years working at IBM, where he received eight patents in multiple areas. He graduated with honors in Computer Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and holds an IEEE CSDA credential. His areas of expertise include IBM Power Systems™ high availability, performance, cloud, and analytics. He has also published papers about Operations Research in IBM developerWorks®.

Murali Dhandapani is a Certified IT Specialist in Systems Management in IBM India. He works for the IBM India Software Lab Operations team, where he is a technical lead for IBM Rational® Jazz™ products infrastructure, high availability, and disaster recovery deployment. He has 10 years of experience. His areas of expertise include Linux, IBM AIX®, IBM POWER® Virtualization, IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror®, System Management, and Rational tools. Murali has a Master of Computer Science degree. He is an IBM developerWorks Contributing Author, IBM Certified Specialist in System p® administration, and an IBM eServer™ Certified Systems Expert - pSeries High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (IBM HACMP™).

Rodrigo Garcia da Silva is an Accredited IT Architect and Technical Computing Client Technical Architect with the IBM System and Technology Group in Brazil. He joined IBM in 2007, and has a total of 11 years of experience in the IT industry. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas. His areas of expertise include High Performance Computing, systems architecture, OS provisioning, Linux, systems management, and open source software development. He also has a strong background in intellectual capital protection, including publications and patents. Rodrigo is responsible for Technical Computing presales support of customers in the Oil and Gas, Automotive, Aerospace, Life Sciences, and Higher Education industries in Brazil. Rodrigo is a previous Redbooks author of IBM POWER 775 HPC Solutions, SG24-8003 and IBM Platform Computing Solutions, SG24-8073.

Amitava Ghosal has worked on Network Devices, OS, Storage, Databases, and Software Platforms. His core expertise is on AIX platform on which he has worked for over five years and related technologies like IBM GPFS™ and HACMP. He currently works as an SME - Manager in one of the biggest Telecom projects of IBM India.

Victor Hu is an Advisory Software Engineer working at the IBM Poughkeepsie site, which is in upstate New York. He currently works on HPC Cloud Solutions using Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition. He has 8 years of experience in the High Performance Computing field working extensively on IBM Tivoli® Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler®. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Hua Chen Li is a Staff Software Engineer in IBM China. His areas of knowledge include IBM Power Systems, System x, BladeCenter@, General Parallel File System (GPFS), and IBM Platform Computing. He has three years of experience in the Linux field and two years of experience in the High Performance Computing field. He was given a Contribution to IBM System p Linux Project Award by IBM for his work on PowerLinux™ project in 2011, and is now working on GPFS test. He has a master’s degree in Software Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China.

Kailash Marthi is a High Performance Computing Cloud Architect. He currently works on Cloud solutions for BigData Analytics as one of the architects of the IBM SmartCloud for Analytics. Kailash has been a developer/architect for various IBM HPC products over 16 years of his career with IBM.

Shao Feng Shi is an Advisory Software Engineer from IBM China development lab in Shanghai. He has 7 years of experience in Java enterprise application and SOA development, and is a domain expert in the IBM globalization and localization process. His areas of expertise include Rational Software Architect, IBM WebSphere® application server, Java web application development, SOA solution design, and Web 2.0 technologies. Shao Feng Shi holds a master degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Stefan Velica is an IT Specialist who currently works for IBM Global Technologies Services in Romania. He has seven years of experience with IBM Power Systems. He is a Certified Specialist for IBM System p Administration, HACMP for AIX, High-end and Entry/Midrange DS Series, and Storage Networking Solutions. His areas of expertise include IBM System Storage®, SAN, PowerVM®, AIX, PowerHA, and GPFS. Stefan holds a bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Ella Bushlovic
International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center

Gordon McPheeters
Linda Cham
Robert Blackmore
Gautam Shah
IBM Poughkeepsie

Hari Reddy
IBM Dallas

Prasenjit Sarkar
IBM Almaden

Radhika A. Parameswaran
IBM India

Gord Sissons
Jeff Karmiol
IBM Canada

Ying Tao
Yi Li Wang
IBM China

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