Roadrunner: Hardware and Software Overview

This IBM® Redpaper publication provides an overview of the hardware and software components that constitute a Roadrunner system. This includes the actual chips, cards, and so on that comprise a Roadrunner connected unit, as well as the peripheral systems required to run applications. It also includes a brief description of the software used to manage and run the system.

Publish Date
14 January 2009

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Author(s)

Dr. Andrew Komornicki is an accomplished computational scientist with many years of experience. Prior to joining IBM, his career included independent research, scientific management, government service, as well as work in the computer industry. During the 1990s, he spent two years as a rotator at the National Science Foundation as a program director, where he co-managed the program in computational chemistry. As a computational scientist, he also spent four years as the chair of the allocation committee at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He has consulted extensively in both the computer and chemical industry. Upon his return from Washington, he spent several years at Sun Microsystems, where he worked as a business development executive tasked with the development of vertical markets in the chemistry and pharmaceutical markets. Three years ago, he joined the Advanced Technical Support group at IBM in the role of supporting scientific computing in the High Performance Computing (HPC) arena. His duties have included support of large scale procurements, benchmarks, and some software contributions.

• Dr. Andrew Komornicki

Gary Mullen-Schulz is a Consulting IT Specialist at the ITSO, Rochester Center. He leads the team responsible for producing Roadrunner documentation, and was the primary author of IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Application Development, SG24-7179. Gary also focuses on Java and WebSphere. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer, Developer and Architect, and has three issued patents.

• Gary Mullen-Schulz

Deb Landon is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist in the IBM ITSO, Rochester Center. Debbie has been with IBM for 25 years, working first with the S/36 and then the AS/400, which has since evolved to the IBM System i platform. Before joining the ITSO in November of 2000, Debbie was a member of the PartnerWorld for Developers iSeries team, supporting IBM Business Partners in the area of Domino for iSeries.

• Deb Landon

IBM Form Number
REDP-4477-00

Number of pages

50