IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Compute Node Linux

This IBM® Redpaper chapter publication describes the use of compute node Linux® on the IBM System Blue Gene® Solution. Readers of this paper need to be familiar with general Blue Gene/P™ system administration and application development concepts.

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Publish Date
19 January 2009

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13 May 2009

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Brant Knudson is a Staff Software Engineer in the Advanced Systems SW Development group of IBM in Rochester, MInnesota, where he has been a programmer on the Blue Gene Control System team since 2003. Prior to working on Blue Gene, he worked on the IBM LDAP directory server.

• Brant Knudson

Jeff Chauvin is a Senior IT Specialist with the IBM Server System's Operations group in Rochester, Minnesota. He has worked on Blue Gene since 2004, helping with all IT related aspects of the project.

• Jeff Chauvin

Jeffrey Lien is an Advisory Software Engineer for IBM Rochester and is a member of the Blue Gene performance team. He specializes in measuring and tuning I/O performance for Blue Gene customers as well as running I/O benchmarks needed for customer bids. Prior to joining the Blue Gene performance team, Jeff developed and tested I/O device drivers used on Ethernet and modem adapter cards. Jeff has been with IBM since 1990.

• Jeffrey Lien

Mark Megerian is a Senior Software Engineer in the IBM Advanced Systems Software Development group in Rochester, Minnesota. He has worked on Blue Gene since 2002 in the area of control system development.

• Mark Megerian

Andrew Tauferner is an Advisory Software Engineer in the IBM Advanced Systems Software Development group of IBM in Rochester, MInnesota, where he has been a programmer on the I/O node kernel since 2005. Prior to working on Blue Gene, he worked on the IBM integrated xSeries server products, developing Windows and Linux I/O infrastructure.

• Andrew Tauferner

IBM Form Number
REDP-4453-00

Number of pages

20