This IBM® Redbooks® publication demonstrates and documents that the combination of IBM System x®, IBM GPFS™, IBM GPFS-FPO, IBM Platform Symphony®, IBM Platform HPC, IBM Platform LSF®, IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition, and IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition deliver significant value to clients in need of cost-effective, highly scalable, and robust solutions. IBM depth of solutions can help the clients plan a foundation to face challenges in how to manage, maintain, enhance, and provision computing environments to, for example, analyze the growing volumes of data within their organizations.

This book addresses topics to educate, reiterate, confirm, and strengthen the widely held opinion of IBM Platform Computing as the systems software platform of choice within an IBM System x environment for deploying and managing environments that help clients solve challenging technical and business problems.

This book also addresses topics to that help answer customer’s complex challenge requirements to manage, maintain, and analyze the growing volumes of data within their organizations and provide expert-level documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the worldwide support teams.

This publication is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for delivering cost-effective computing solutions that help optimize business results, product development, and scientific discoveries.

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 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, 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.

Luis Carlos Cruz is a Solution Architect for Midrange and Storage with IBM CES SO Delivery with over a year at IBM. He has held research in big data analytics, winning the 2013 Regional Technical Exchange with a Big Data architecture for cloud banking. Among the positions Luis comes from is GBM, a strategic IBM Alliance company in Latin America where he holds positions in strategy, Tivoli® Architecture, project management, and management positions primarily working in and around Tivoli Service Management capabilities, management systems, data warehouse infrastructure, information integration, database administration, performance management, and database development technology. He has been a prominent speaker at industry events and customer briefings and a frequent contributor to industry articles, analyst research, and other publications.

Ricardo Machado Picone is an IBM Senior Certified IT Specialist in Brazil. He works with business intelligence architecture and reporting systems. He supports a project that provides revenue and aspiration metrics for the IBM worldwide sales teams. His areas of expertise include SQL language, ETL jobs, databases, data modeling, IBM Cognos® dashboard/scorecards, IBM Cognos administration, IT infrastructure support, and operational systems. Ricardo is an IBM Certified Business Intelligence Solutions Specialist and is leading the Business Intelligence Brazilian Center of Competence (COC-BI) in areas, such as IBM Cognos technical support and education. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Universidade Paulista.

Dusan Smolej is a Senior IT Architect at Global Technology Services®, IBM Czech Republic. He has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry, and 12 years with IBM. He works as an Integration Architect and was a Lead Architect for some of the successful complex engagements for local and international clients. His areas of expertise include Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration, Digital Archiving, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Performance Analysis, and Optimization. He holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Kosice (TUKE), Slovakia.

Daniel de Souza Casali has 10 years working with IBM and is an IBM CrossSystems Senior Certified. He works for the Systems and Technology Group as Latin America Platform Computing IT Specialist. Daniel holds an Engineering degree in Physics from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). His areas of expertise include UNIX, SAN networks, IBM Disk Subsystems, and clustering solutions.

Gheorghe Tudor is an IT Specialist and works for IBM Global Technologies Services in Romania. He has experience in designing and implementing solutions that are based on AIX®, PowerHA®, PowerVM®, General Parallel File System (GPFS), IBM System Storage®, VMware, Linux, Cisco and Brocade SAN, and Cloud Computing. Gheorghe holds a degree in Computer Science and earned various IBM Product Certifications.

Joanna Wong is an Executive IT Specialist for the IBM STG Worldwide Client Centers, focusing on IBM Platform Computing solutions. She has experience in HPC application optimization and large systems scalability performance on x86-64 and IBM Power architecture. Joanna also has industry experience in engagements with Oracle database server and Enterprise Application Integration. Joanna has an Artium Baccalaureatus degree in Physics from Princeton University and a Master of Science degree and a doctorate degree in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University. She also has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Walter Haas School of Business with the University of California at Berkeley.

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

International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center

IBM US

IBM Canada

IBM Brazil

IBM Australia

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