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Publish Date
18 September 2007
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Author(s)
- Dino Quintero
- Dr. Norbert Conrad
- Rob Desjarlais
- Marc-Eric Kahle
- Jung-Hoon Kim
- Hoang-Nam Nguyen
- Tony Pirraglia
- Fernando Pizzano
- Shi Lei Yao
- Octavian Lascu
Dino Quintero is a Senior Certified Consulting IT Specialist and the worldwide Technical Marketing Manager for the IBM System Blue Gene Solution. Before joining the deep computing marketing team, he was a Clustering Project Leader for the ITSO. He worked as a clustering Performance Analyst for the Enterprise Systems Group focusing on industry benchmarks such as TPC-C, TPC-H, and TPC-W. He also worked as a Disaster Recovery Architect for IBM Global Services focusing on backup and recovery solutions for large customers. He has been with IBM since 1996, and in the IT industry since 1992. His areas of expertise include enterprise backup and recovery, disaster recovery planning and implementation, and clustering architecture and solutions. He is an IBM Certified Specialist on System p Administration, System p clustering, and he is also an IBM Sr. Certified IT Specialist. Currently, he focuses on planning, influencing, leading, managing, and marketing IBM Blue Gene solution. He also delivers technical lectures worldwide.
Dr. Norbert Conrad is team leader for High Performance Computing in the Hochschulrechenzentrum at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. He has worked with AIX for fifteen years. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. His areas of expertise include High Performance Computing, High Availability, and Tivoli Storage Manager.
Rob Desjarlais is a Principle Systems Analyst in Portsmouth NH. He has 15 years of experience in the IT field. His areas of expertise include system design and architecture, and systems support. This is his first published work.
Marc-Eric Kahle is a pSeries Hardware Support specialist at the IBM Global Technology Services Central Region Hardware Back Office in Ehningen, Germany. He has worked in the RS/6000, System p, and AIX fields since 1993. He has worked at IBM Germany since 1987. His areas of expertise include RS/6000 and System p hardware and he is also an AIX certified specialist. He has participated in the development of five other IBM Redbooks publications.
Jung-Hoon Kim is a system P Advisory Service Representative at the IBM Global Technology Services in Daejeon, South Korea. He has six years of experience in System p. He has worked at IBM for six years. His areas of expertise include RS/6000 and pSeries hardware and he is also an AIX certified specialist. His main responsibility is customer support and the implementation of high-end pSeries, RS/6000, and SP solutions.
Hoang-Nam Nguyen is a software engineer at the IBM Systems and Technology Group in Boeblingen, Germany. He holds a master degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He has 12 years of experience in software and firmware development on various platforms. His areas of expertise include (Java) service oriented architecture, network and system management, and high performance computing.
Tony Pirraglia is a senior engineer in the ISV Business Strategy and Enablement organization. He is based in Poughkeepsie, NY. He is currently involved with ISV application benchmarks in support of System p product launches, interfacing with the Blue Gene team regarding ISV support, and representing the ISV BSE organization on selected Product Development Teams. Tony has been involved with Scientific and Technical computing on IBM platforms in one form or another since 1988, when he first joined IBM. He received his Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University.
Fernando Pizzano is a System Administrator in IBM Advanced Clustering Technology Development Lab, Poughkeepsie, New York. He has nine years of information technology experience. The last seven of those years have been with IBM. His areas of expertise include AIX, pSeries High Performance Switch, and IBM System p hardware. He holds an IBM certification in pSeries AIX 5L System Support. His current position is in the Communication Protocols and Application Tools Development department.
Shi Lei Yao is a senior technical sales specialist of the IBM System p brand in China. He has eight years of experience in High Performance Computing (HPC), and three years of experience in System p and IBM eServer Cluster 1600 at IBM. He holds a PhD degree in Computing Fluid Dynamics (CFD). His areas of expertise include codes tuning and parallelizing for HPC applications.
Octavian Lascu is a Project Leader at the ITSO, Poughkeepsie Center. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide on all areas of IBM System p and Linux clusters. Before joining the ITSO, Octavian worked in IBM Global Services Romania as a software and hardware Services Manager. He holds a Master's 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 with IBM since 1992.
ISBN
0738486515
IBM Form Number
SG24-7351-00