This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide provides information about the different industry solutions that the IBM Platform Computing portfolio offers to help clients manage, maintain, and analyze the growing volumes of data within their organizations. IBM Platform Computing offers solutions that address different industries. IBM Platform Computing is the systems software platform of choice for deploying and managing complex environments, which helps clients gain insights from their data to solve challenging technical and business problems.

IBM® Platform Computing is a set of systems software that helps with High Performance Computing (HPC), including computationally and data-intensive design, manufacturing, financial analytic, business, and research applications. IBM Platform Computing solutions optimize complex application implementation and workloads in many of the world’s largest environments (with more than 100,000 cores). The core value of the product portfolio is to simplify and accelerate high-performance simulations and analysis to gain insights into business, products, and science.

Many organizations have the constant challenge of increasing compute capacity to support massive amounts of data that drive business value and competitive advantage. IBM Platform Computing solutions simplify the setup, integration, and management of your heterogeneous technical computing infrastructure and drive up server usage to increase application throughput and help greatly improve time to results. IBM Platform Computing software also helps you integrate servers, storage, parallel execution environments, and applications. Together, IBM Platform Computing solutions enable the delivery of complete solutions that simplify and accelerate implementation and management of high-performance clusters, grids, and HPC clouds. Business value is delivered in days versus weeks or months.

Figure 1 shows an overview of IBM Platform Computing solutions.