This publication helps strengthen the position of IBM® software solutions and enables for High Performance Computing (hardware, software, and tools) with a well-defined and documented deployment model within an IBM environment. As a result, customers receive a planned foundation for dynamic infrastructure for parallel High Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

This IBM Redbooks® publication addresses topics to take advantage of the strengths of IBM PE Developers Edition for HPC applications. The objective is to solve customer's challenges and maximize systems' throughput, performance, and management. This publication examines the tools, utilities, documentation, and other resources available to help the IBM technical teams provide solutions and support for IBM HPC solutions in an IBM hardware environment.

This IBM Redbooks is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for providing HPC 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 an IBM Senior Certified IT Specialist with the ITSO in Poughkeepsie, NY. His areas of knowledge include enterprise continuous availability, enterprise systems management, system virtualization, and technical computing, and clustering solutions. He is currently 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.

Akmal Chaudhri is Senior IT Specialist in IBM United Kingdom (UK). Akmal has worked with database technology since 1988. He worked in a variety of roles, covering development, consulting, and product strategy with Reuters, Logica, Computer Associates, IBM Informix®, and IBM. He published and presented widely about Java, XML, and Database-related topics. He also edited and co-edited ten books and is now working on a new book about NoSQL technology. He worked extensively with the academic community on a world-wide basis through community outreach programs at Informix and IBM. He holds a Bachelor of Science(1st Class Hons.) in Computing and Information Systems, Master of Science in Business Systems Analysis and Design, and a PhD in Computer Science. He is a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and a Chartered IT Professional (CITP).

Feng Dong is a Senior IT Specialist in IBM China. He has six years of experience in the High Performance Computing field. He has worked at IBM for 14 years. His areas of knowledge include System x, BladeCenter@, and IBM Power Systems™, rich experience for Linux HPC cluster deployment and performance tuning. From 2010, he work with IBM World Wide Benchmark Team, focus on HPC benchmark testing. He has a Bachelor degree of Compute Science from Beijing University of Technology, in China.

Peter Mayes is a Senior IT Specialist in the United Kingdom (UK). He has 26 years of experience in the field of high-performance computing. He has a Masters degree in Mathematics, Masters of Science in Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis, and DPhil in Engineering Mathematics, all from the University of Oxford. His areas of expertise is FORTRAN programming, particularly for high-performance and parallel computers.

Kleber Sacilotto de Souza is a Software Engineer working at the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) in Brazil. He has more than five years of experience in Linux development and tests and is currently working with Linux device drivers for I/O devices for the IBM Power Systems. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. His areas of expertise include C development, Linux device drivers, and tests automation.

Wainer dos Santos Moschetta is a Staff Software Engineer at the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) in Brazil. He has more than six years of experience in several areas of Linux and open source ecosystems. He is a Certified Associate in Project Management (PMI-CAPM) and currently leads the development of the IBM SDK for PowerLinux™. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. His areas of expertise are IBM PowerLinux™, automated test/build systems, Linux device drivers, development of tools for application migration, and construction of modern Integrated Development Environments (IDE) leveraging open source.

Xiao Tian Xu is a Software Engineer in IBM China. He has two years of experience in parallel computing and High Performance Computing fields, worked on the code tuning for the numerical weather predicting project of Chinese meteorological office, and did system testing on the IBM HPC software stack side for BGQ, SuperMUC, and Percs projects. He has a degree in High Performance Computing from Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center, the University of Edinburgh, UK. Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Ella Buslovic, Richard Conway
International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center

Beth Tibbitts, Brian Watt, Chulho Kim, Dave Wootton, Gregory Watson, John Robb, and KaTrina Love
IBM USA

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