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