Residency Details

This in an unique opportunity to work in Poughkeepsie, home of the IBM Technical Computing Clustering Solutions, and use the tools, utilities, documentation and other resources available to help the IT professional to learn how to manage and monitor the cluster configuration and its overall health based on problems reported by the users. Residents will work closely with the IBM Technical Computing focal points, the development teams, and get hands-on experience planning, scheduling, checking, testing, and documenting the health of the Cluster components using tools to manage the health of most common components to help the clients' leverage the architectural technologies and Technical Computing Solutions available from IBM. They will also participate in training and discussion sessions with the IBM High Performance Computing (HPC) technical focal points, the ITSO technical project leaders and the development teams, provide feedback, and author the IBM Cluster Health Check Redbooks publication. After this six-week experience (refer to the time table below), each resident will have skills and a broader knowledge on how to manage and monitor the IBM Cluster configuration and health via customizable checks, thus enabling them to help the client’s gain management, monitoring, and functionality of the Cluster to help the client maximize the utilization of their environment to solve challenging technical and business problems.


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This residency begins September 9 2013, ends October 18 2013 (6 weeks), and requires 5 residents. The residency is running in Poughkeepsie NY USA with the following format:

The residency will kick off on Monday September 9, 2013:

For the first four weeks (September 9 through October 4) - The residents will be gathered at the IBM ITSO in Poughkeepsie, New York.

For the last two weeks (October 7 through October 18) - The residents will be working remotely from their respective countries.

During the residency, the team will customize, test, check and verify the Cluster infrastructure configuration. This IBM Redbooks publication will document how to monitor the overall health check of the Cluster infrastructure to deliver the Technical Computing clients cost-effective, highly scalable, and robust solutions.

The IBM Redbooks publication the residents will develop is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for delivering cost effective Technical Computing and HPC solutions to optimize business results, product development, and scientific discoveries.

This IBM Redbooks publication will address topics to provide infrastructure health checks, for example: checking the configuration, verifying functionality of the common subsystems (nodes or servers, switch fabric, parallel filesystem, job management, problem areas, etc.).