This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the integration of IBM Platform Symphony® with IBM BigInsights™. It includes IBM Platform LSF® implementation scenarios that use IBM System x® technologies. This IBM Redbooks publication is written for consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists who are responsible for providing solutions and support for IBM Platform Computing solutions.

This book explains how the IBM Platform Computing solutions and the IBM System x platform can help to solve customer challenges and to maximize systems throughput, capacity, and management. It examines the tools, utilities, documentation, and other resources that are available to help technical teams provide solutions and support for IBM Platform Computing solutions in a System x environment.

In addition, this book includes a well-defined and documented deployment model within a System x environment. It provides a planned foundation for provisioning and building large scale parallel high-performance computing (HPC) applications, cluster management, analytics workloads, and grid applications.

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), Poughkeepsie Center.

Dino Quintero is an IBM Senior Certified IT Specialist and a Complex Solutions Project Leader with the ITSO in Poughkeepsie, New York (NY). His areas of knowledge include enterprise continuous availability, enterprise systems management, system virtualization, technical computing, and clustering solutions. He is currently an Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist. Dino holds a Master of Computing Information Systems degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Marist College.

Ricardo Dobelin Barros is an IBM Certified IT Specialist in Brazil. Ricardo joined IBM in 2002 and has a total of 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He works in the capacity and performance group for IBM Strategic Outsourcing Delivery. Ricardo has expertise in availability management, service-levels management, sizing, and performance tuning in operating systems. He also has expertise in capacity planning, modeling, measurement, and infrastructure management for many IBM clients in Brazil. Ricardo holds a bachelor degree in systems analysis and post-graduate teaching degree in higher education.

Ashraf Gomaa is a Technical Project Manager and Team Leader at the Cairo Technology Development Center for IBM Egypt. He has worked for IBM for over 7 years with experience in software development and testing. His areas of expertise include web development, database development, globalization, IBM AIX® administration, and Linux administration. Ashraf graduated from Modern Academy in Maadi with a bachelor degree in computer science. He also has a diploma in software engineering from the Information Technology Institute in Egypt.

José Higino is an Infrastructure IT Specialist who provides AIX and Linux support and services for IBM Portugal. His areas of knowledge include System x, IBM BladeCenter®, and IBM Power Systems™ planning and implementation, management, virtualization, consolidation and clustering (HPC and high availability) solutions. José completed the Red Hat Certified Technician level in 2007, became a CiRBA Certified Virtualization Analyst in 2009, and completed certification in KT Resolve methodology as a subject matter expert in 2011. José holds a Master of Computers and Electronics Engineering degree from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Technologia, in Portugal.

Archana Kumar is an Advisory Software Engineer for IBM and has over 10 years of experience in software development and testing. Before joining IBM, she worked in application domain at ORACLE India Pvt Ltd. Since joining IBM in March 2004, she has worked in grid computing, security, and systems management. Her areas of interest include distributed computing, IT management, virtualization, security, and open source projects. In 2002, Archana graduated with a degree in computer science engineering from National Institute of Engineering, which is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University.

Majid Ouassir is a Senior Technical HPC Consultant for IBM for over 12 years. He holds Platform product certifications in IBM Platform LSF HPC, IBM Platform Symphony administrator, Platform Cluster Manager, and Platform HPC. Majid has written three publications about computer science. He holds a doctorate degree with honors in computer science from UTC: French National Higher University for Sciences and Technologies.

Adam Parker is a Senior IT Specialist in the United Kingdom. He has worked at IBM for 14 years, including 6 years in HPC. His areas of expertise include IBM Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit, IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS™), and Linux cluster management. He co-wrote the Redbooks publication Managing AIX Server Farms, SG24-6606. He holds an honors degree in computer science from Wolverhampton University.

Joanna Wong is an Executive IT Specialist for the IBM STG Worldwide Client Centers focusing on IBM Platform Computing solutions. She has experience in HPC application optimization and large systems scalability performance on x86-64 and IBM Power architecture. Joanna also has industry experience in engagements with Oracle database server and Enterprise Application Integration. Joanna has an Artium Baccalaureatus degree in Physics from Princeton University and a Master of Science degree and a doctorate degree both in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University. She also has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Walter Haas School of Business with the University of California at Berkeley.

A special thank you goes to QLogic Corporation for the InfiniBand fabric equipment that we used during the residency. In addition, we thank the following people for their contributions to this project:

Ella Buslovic
ITSO, Poughkeepsie Center

Greg Geiselhart
Magnus Larsson
Oleg Litvinov
Gregory Rodgers
IBM USA

Michael Feiman
Eric Fiala
Peng Hu
Zane Hu
William Lu
Gord Sissons
IBM Canada

Bill McMillan
IBM UK

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