IBM Power Systems 775 Manual page 12

Jose Higino is an Infrastructure IT Specialist for AIX/Linux support and services for IBM
Portugal. His areas of knowledge include System X, BladeCenter® and Power Systems
planning and implementation, management, virtualization, consolidation, and clustering (HPC
and HA) solutions. He is currently the only person responsible for Linux support and services
in IBM Portugal. He 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 an SME in 2011. José holds a Master of Computers and Electronics
Engineering degree from UNL - FCT (Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências
e Technologia), in Portugal.
Marc-Eric Kahle is a POWER® Systems Hardware Support specialist at the IBM Global
Technology Services® Central Region Hardware EMEA Back Office in Ehningen, Germany.
He has worked in the RS/6000®, POWER System, and AIX fields since 1993. He has worked
at IBM Germany since 1987. His areas of expertise include POWER Systems hardware and
he is an AIX certified specialist. He has participated in the development of six other IBM
Redbooks publications.
Tsuyoshi Kamenoue is a Advisory IT specialist in Power Systems Technical Sales in IBM
Japan. He has nine years of experience of working on pSeries, System p®, and Power
Systems products especially in HPC area. He holds a Bachelor's degree in System
information from the university of Tokyo.
James Pearson is a Product Engineer for pSeries high-end Enterprise systems and HPC
cluster offerings since 1998. He has participated in the planning, test, installation and
on-going maintenance phases of clustered RISC and pSeries servers for numerous
government and commercial customers, beginning with SP2 and continuing through the
current Power 775 HPC solution.
Mark Perez is a customer support specialist servicing IBM Cluster 1600.
Fernando Pizzano is a Hardware and Software Bring-up Team Lead in the IBM Advanced
Clustering Technology Development Lab, Poughkeepsie, New York. He has over 10 years of
information technology experience, the last five years in HPC Development. His areas of
expertise include AIX, pSeries High Performance Switch, and IBM System p hardware. He
holds an IBM certification in pSeries AIX 5L™ System Support.
Robert Simon is a Senior Software Engineer in STG working in Poughkeepsie, New York. He
has worked with IBM since 1987. He currently is a Team Leader in the Software Technical
Support Group, which supports the High Performance Clustering software (LoadLeveler,
CSM, GPFS™, RSCT, and PPE). He has extensive experience with IBM System p hardware,
AIX, HACMP™, and high-performance clustering software. He has participated in the
development of three other IBM Redbooks publications.
Kai Sun is a Software Engineer in pSeries Cluster System Test for high performance
computing in IBM China System Technology Laboratory, Beijing. Since joining the team in
2011, he has worked with the IBM Power Systems 775 cluster. He has six years of
experience at embedded system on Linux and VxWorks platform. He has recently been given
an Eminence and Excellence Award by IBM for his work on Power Systems 775 cluster. He
holds a B.Eng. degree in Communication Engineering from Beijing University of Technology,
China. He has a M.Sc. degree in Project Management from the New Jersey Institute of
Technology, US.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Mark Atkins
IBM Boulder
Robert Dandar
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