Profile
Publish Date
10 November 2008
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Author(s)
- Octavian Lascu
- Andrey Brindeyev
- Dino E. Quintero
- Velmayil Sermakkani
- Robert (Bob) Simon
- Timothy (Tim) Struble
Octavian Lascu is a Project Leader associated with the ITSO, Poughkeepsie Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide on all areas of IBM System p and Linux clusters. His areas of expertise include High Performance Computing, Blue Gene and Clusters. Before joining ITSO, Octavian worked in IBM Global Services Romania as a software and hardware Services Manager. He holds a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnical Institute in Bucharest, and is also an IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert in AIX/PSSP/HACMP. He has worked for IBM since 1992.
Andrey Brindeyev is a Senior IT Specialist in IBM Russia. He has been with IBM since 2005. He acts as a Presales Specialist for STG and as a Software Engineer for GTS for delivering service projects for IBM Russia. Prior to that role, he was a Technical Consultant in joint initiative between the IBM and Intel Energy Competence Center for the oil and gas industry for System x products, with a major focus on IBM System Cluster 1350 solution. His areas of expertise are the IBM BladeCenter, System x servers, VMware, and Linux. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Radioengineering, Electronics and Automation and holds a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics. He is a Senior Accredited IT Specialist.
Dino E. Quintero is an IBM Senior Certified IT Specialist in the Worldwide Technical Support Marketing for the IBM System Blue Gene Solution and IBM HPC Software. Before joining the Deep Computing team, he was a Clustering Solutions Project Leader for the IBM ITSO. His areas of expertise include enterprise backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning and implementation, and clustering architecture and solutions. He is a Certified Specialist on System p Administration, System p Clustering, High Availability. He is a Master Certified IT Specialist by the Open Group. Currently, he focuses on planning, influencing, leading, managing, and marketing the IBM Blue Gene and the IBM HPC Software Solutions. He also delivers technical lectures worldwide.
Velmayil Sermakkani is an HPC Specialist at India Software Lab (ISL), working in the High Performance Computing Group and STG Lab Services. He has 12 years of experience, joining IBM in 2007. He currently provides support for HPC Benchmark clusters on System p and System x. He has implemented several GPFS, CSM clusters and provided worldwide customer training in HACMP, GPFS, and CSM. Prior to that he worked as a Consultant for IBM Austin and Poughkeepsie, and as a Technical Tester and Developer for GPFS, CSM, xCAT products in Poughkeepsie. He holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India.
Robert (Bob) Simon is a Senior Software Engineer in STG working in Poughkeepsie, New York. He has worked with IBM since 1987. He currently is a Team Leader in the Software Technical Support Group, which supports the High Performance Clustering software (LoadLeveler, CSM, GPFS, RSCT and PPE). He has extensive experience with IBM System p hardware, AIX, HACMP, and High Performance Clustering software. He has participated in the development of two other IBM Redbooks.
Timothy (Tim) Struble is the Team Lead of the Level-2 CSM and xCAT Service Team in Poughkeepsie, New York, a position he has held for five years. Prior to that he was the Level-3 Team Lead. He has been in the service organization for 16 years and has worked extensively with cluster management software dating back to RS/6000 SP. Tim graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science in 1989 and joined IBM that same year.
IBM Form Number
REDP-4437-00