Profile
Publish Date
08 August 2008
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Author(s)
- Abraham Arevalo
- Ricardo M. Matinata
- Maharaja (Raj) Pandian
- Eitan Peri
- Kurtis Ruby
- Francois Thomas
- Chris Almond
Abraham Arevalo is a Software Engineer in the Linux Technology Center's Test Department in Austin, Texas. He has worked on ensuring quality and functional performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1 and Fedora 7 distributions on BladeCenter QS20 and QS21 blade servers. Additionally, Abraham has been involved on other Cell/B.E.-related projects including expanding its presence on consumer electronics. He has prior experience working with hardware development mostly with System on Chip design.
Ricardo M. Matinata is an Advisory Software Engineer for the Linux Technology Center, in IBM Systems and Technology Group at IBM Brazil. He has over 10 years of experience in software research and development. He has been part of the global Cell/B.E. SDK development team, in the Toolchain (integrated development environment (IDE)) area, for almost two years. Ricardo's areas of expertise include system software and application development for product and open source types of projects, Linux, programming models, development tools, debugging, and networking.
Maharaja (Raj) Pandian is a High Performance Computing specialist working on scientific applications in the IBM Worldwide Advanced Client Technology (A.C.T!) Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. Currently, he is developing and benchmarking Financial Sector Services applications on the Cell/B.E. He has twenty years of experience in high performance computing, software development, and market support. His areas of expertise include parallel algorithms for distributed memory system and symmetric multiprocessor system, numerical methods for partial differential equations, performance optimization, and benchmarking. Maharaja has worked with engineering analysis ISV applications, such as MSC/NASTRAN (Finite Element Analysis) and Fluent (Computational Fluid Dynamics), for several years. He has also worked with weather modeling applications on IBM AIX and Linux clusters. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas, Arlington.
Eitan Peri works in the IBM Haifa Research Lab as the technical lead for Cell/B.E. pre-sales activities in Israel. He is currently working on projects focusing on porting applications to the CBEA within the health care, computer graphics, aerospace, and defense industries. He has nine years of experience in real-time programming, chip design, and chip verification. His areas of expertise include Cell/B.E. programming and consulting, application parallelization and optimization, algorithm performance analysis, and medical imaging. Eitan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (the Technion) and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, where he specialized in brain imaging analysis.
Kurtis Ruby is a software consultant with IBM Lab Services at IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. He has over twenty-five years of experience in various programming assignments in IBM. His expertise includes Cell/B.E. programming and consulting. Kurtis holds a degree in mathematics from Iowa State University.
Francois Thomas is an IBM Certified IT Specialist working on high-performance computing (HPC) pre-sales in the Deep Computing Europe organization in France. He has 18 years of experience in the field of scientific and technical computing. His areas of expertise include application code tuning and parallelization as well as Linux clusters management. He works with weather forecast institutions in Europe on enabling petroleum engineering ISV applications to the Linux on Power platform. Francois holds a PhD. in Physics from ENSAM/Paris VI University.
Chris Almond is an ITSO Project Leader and IT Architect based at the ITSO Center in Austin, Texas. In his current role, he specializes in managing content development projects focused on Linux, AIX 5L™ systems engineering, and other innovation programs. He has a total of 17 years of IT industry experience, including the last eight with IBM. Chris handled the production of this IBM Redbooks publication.
ISBN
0738485942
IBM Form Number
SG24-7575-00