This IBM® Platform Computing Solutions Redbooks® publication is the first book to describe each of the available offerings that are part of the IBM portfolio of Cloud, analytics, and High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions for our clients. This IBM Redbooks publication delivers descriptions of the available offerings from IBM Platform Computing that address challenges for our clients in each industry. We include a few implementation and testing scenarios with selected solutions.

This publication helps strengthen the position of IBM Platform Computing solutions with a well-defined and documented deployment model within an IBM System x® environment. This deployment model offers clients a planned foundation for dynamic cloud infrastructure, provisioning, large-scale parallel HPC application development, cluster management, and grid applications.

This IBM publication is targeted to IT specialists, IT architects, support personnel, and clients. This book is intended for anyone who wants information about how IBM Platform Computing solutions use IBM to provide a wide array of client solutions.

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Platform Computing

Chapter 2. Technical computing software portfolio

Chapter 3. Planning

Chapter 4. IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility (LSF) product family

Chapter 5. IBM Platform Symphony

Chapter 6. IBM Platform High Performance Computing

Chapter 7. IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition

Appendix A. IBM Platform Computing Message Passing Interface

Appendix B. Troubleshooting examples

Appendix C. IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility add-ons and examples

Appendix D. Getting started with KVM provisioning