Introduction
IBM Platform Computing provides infrastructure software solutions that help clients succeed and gain competitive advantages. This publication addresses not only the architectural concepts of the platform software family, but focuses on two implementation reference architectures that address the enterprise needs: High performance computing for technical workloads and Big Data analytics.
Throughout this book we use term Big Data, which is also referred as BigData, Big data, and big data.
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