Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters

Chapter 1. Introduction

In this chapter, we introduce and discuss the major reasons to deploy Linux on pSeries clusters.

We cover the following topics:

• 1.1, “Introduction” on page 2

• 1.2, “Why use Linux on pSeries” on page 2

• 1.3, “POWER4 architecture advantages” on page 3

• 1.4, “Chapter description” on page 3