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Power Systems: AIX participating schools

AIX is the fastest growing UNIX operating system and students with AIX skills will expand their job and career opportunities worldwide. Our participating schools are listed alphabetically by country. AIX course offerings and research are from the 2012 academic year.

To be included in this list or to find out more about these schools, please send a note to powerskills@us.ibm.com or call 845-433-8500 (USA).

This information was last updated May 16, 2013.

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Argentina

  • INSTITUTO INDUSTRIAL LUIS A. HUERGO
    Buenos Aires, Capital Federal
    Course offerings: Processing systems
    Research: Unfolding open source network services. Compile open source apps over non-i386 (Intel) computers and operating systems.
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE BELGRANO
    Cuidad Autonoma de Buenos Aires
    Course offerings: AIX and Linux in Operation System and other courses of different operational platforms; AIX administration
    Research: We are researching about Free Software, development in Academic Social Net. http://conexion.ub.edu.ar:85

Australia

  • VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
    Melbourne, Victoria
    Course offerings: AIX, Linux, DB2, Networking as part of ERP subjects, administration and management, client server technology

Austria

  • EDV SCHULE WIEN - BG KLOSTERNEAUBURG
    Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria
    Course offerings: Programming (Command line) and databases; SPSS version 19 and 20
    Research: Statistics: Polls using SPSS

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Brazil

  • UNIAO EDUCACIONAL DE BRASILIA (UNEB)
    Brasilia, DF
    Course offerings: Unix Operating System concepts
  • UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS
    Campinas, SP
    Research: We research Computer Architecture using PowerPC

Canada

  • SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
    Burnaby, BC
    Research: DB2 on AIX for health and public security research

China

  • BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Beijing
    Course offerings: AIX Operation, DB2, Java, WebSphere
  • CHONGQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Chongqing
  • DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Dalian, Liaoning
    Course offerings: Enterprise server system application foundation, Enterprise server management system, Enterprise server program design, Enterprise server database application, AIX User, AIX System Admin, Linux, Operating System
  • HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Harbin, Heilongjiang
    Course offerings: AIX/Linux operating system; computer fundamentals
    Research: For natural language processing research
  • HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Wuhan, Hubei
    Course offerings: AIX basic course, DB2 course, Linux course, SHELL programming
    Research: Peer-to-Peer Network system
  • INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY
    Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
    Course offerings: Computer Networks, Principles of Database
    Research: Parallel computing
  • NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
    Nanjing, Jiangsu
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    Shenyang, Liaoning
    Course offerings: AIX, Introduction to Enterprise Server System
    Research: SOA, Cloud Computing, etc.
  • SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Shanghai
    Course offerings: Operating Systems
    Research: We have developed a multi-source multi-target dynamic binary translation system, including Power Architecture
  • SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Chengdu, Sichuan
    Course offerings: Computational cluster for medical information process
    Research: Medical information analysis
  • TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Tianjin
    Course offerings: Operating Systems, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
    Research: Research on e-business and software engineering
  • TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Shanghai
    Course offerings: Power Systems Introduction and Program Development
    Research: Cloud computing based on AIX/UNIX
  • UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Chengdu, Sichuan
    Course offerings: Foundation of AIX, Programming on UNIX, Structure of UNIX
    Research: Security of file system, technique of process control
  • YUNNAN UNIVERSITY
    Kunming, Yunnan
    Course offerings: Operations, Administration, DB2, Linux, Networking, XML, COBOL, Java and Security, programming and performance
    Research: Data mining, Parallel Computing, Cloud computing and Software engineering are all related with the use of AIX/UNIX.
  • ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, SOFTWARE COLLEGE
    Hangzhou, Zhejiang
    Course offerings: An Introduction to Operating System; Operating System Experiment
    Research: Research projects on financial software systems and also bioinformatics are using AIX/UNIX systems.

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Colombia

  • UNIVERSIDAD DISTRITAL FRANCISCO JOSE DE CALDAS
    Bogota
    Research: Grid computing with Glubus Toolkit (e-Science)

Czech Republic

  • CHARLES UNIVERSITY
    Praha
    Course offerings: Linux (administration, internals), XML, Java, some middleware technologies
    Research: Many of our experiments run on Unix or Linux, some on IBM machines. Usually, these are software performance evaluation related

Finland

  • ROVANIEMI UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
    Rovaniemi, Lapland
    Course offerings: Server environment and Linux Unix Basics

France

  • CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE CATHOLIQUE DE BOURGOGNE
    Dijon
    Course offerings: AIX Administration, UNIX Performance tuning, AIX Data Structure (LVM, FS, etc.)
  • UNIVERSITE LILLE 1
    Villeneuve d'ascq
    Course offerings: DB2, COBOL
    Research: Many department of our university use AIX for research since we have some big power systems used mainly for scientific computation

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Germany

  • BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
    Brandenburg/Havel
    Course offerings: Operating systems and networks
    Research: Large enterprise applications like SAP, real-time processing
  • INSTITUT FUR TROPOSPHARENFORSCHUNG
    Leipzig
  • UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG
    Augsburg
    Research: CPLEX
  • UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL
    Wuppertal
    Research: ilog CPLEX, STATA, R-project

Hungary

  • BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY & ECONOMICS
    Budapest
    Course offerings: General AIX introduction; virtualization technologies and applications, project laboratory

India

  • COIMBATORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Ciombatore, Tamil Nadue
    Course offerings: Virtualization and File System; AIX 7 Administration
  • MGM'S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
    Gautambudhnagar, UP
    Course offerings: Java, DB2
  • ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE
    Trichy, Tamil Nadue
    Course offerings: AIX Basics

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Italy

  • UNIVERSITA DI FIRENZE
    Sesto F.no, Firenze
    Course offerings: Small part devoted to Linux/AIX
    Research: Computational Chemistry: molecular dynamics simulations classic and ab initio, all electron calculations (gamess, gaussian)
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO III
    Napoli
    Course offerings: Rational and DB2 stack tools
    Research: ETC project
  • UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA, DEPT OF INFORMATION ENGINEERING
    Padova
    Course offerings:
    Research: Parallel computing
  • UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
    Trento
    Course offerings:
    Research: Formal Methods, Semantic

Japan

  • TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
    Hachioji, Tokyo
    Course offerings:
    Research: Computational sciences including chemistry, physics, etc.

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Lithuania

  • VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
    Vilnius
    Course offerings: Operating Systems, Java, WebSphere, Domino, Integrated IDE
    Research: Parallel computing
  • VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
    Vilnius
    Course offerings: IBM AIX System Administration course; AIX operating system

Mexico

  • INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO Y DE ESTUDIOS SUPERIORES DE MONTERREY (ITESM)
    Santa Fe
    Course offerings: Operating Systems, DB2 and WebSphere
  • UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CHIHUAHUA
    Chihuahua, Chih
    Course offerings: Operating systems, modern operating systems and operating systems seminar
  • UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEON
    Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
    Course offerings: DB Systems, Networking Basics

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Pakistan

  • SIR SYED UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
    Karachi
    Course offerings: Operating Systems

Peru

  • UNIVERSIDAD SAN MARTIN DE PORRES
    Lima
    Research: DB2 and AIX

Poland

  • AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Krakow
    Course offerings: Administration, DB2, CL, RPG, Java, IBM Power Systems/IBM i Integration platform
    Research: Physics of condensed matter, medical physics, complex systems research
  • ZESPOL SZKOL TECHNICZYNCH IM T. KOSCIUSZKI W RADOMIU
    Radom, Mazowieckie
    Course offerings: AIX Basics, UNIX/AIX User Essentials, Korn and Bash Shell Programming,AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals, Power Systems for AIX II: AIX

Russia

  • ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
    St. Petersburg
    Course offerings: Unix, networking, parallel systems, distributed computing, grid computing technologies
    Research: Unix-based parallel, distributed and grid computing applied to different fields from medical informatics to beam dynamics in particle accelerators

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Singapore

  • INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
    Singapore
    Course offerings: AIX Administration (Elective)

South Africa

  • UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
    Pretoria, Gauteng
    Course offerings: AIX and IBM (INTEL and POWER) Cluster systems
    Research: All research in Chemistry and Physics Departments run on IBM i and Power unit Clusters using the "GAUSSIAN" Code-set and the Vienna "VASP" Quantum codes. Also performing single-atom Quantum software development on the IBM Intel-Cluster units.

Switzerland

  • ENGINEERING SCHOOL OF GENEVA
    Geneva
    Course offerings: Dynamic Partitioning of Unix platforms; Unix commands Basics and Advanced

Thailand

  • KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Amphur Muang, Prachinburi
    Course offerings: Linux Operating Systems, AIX Basics

Turkey

  • FIRAT UNIVERSITY
    Elazıg

Ukraine

  • DONETSK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    Donetsk
    Course offerings: AIX topics Basics and Administration
  • TERNOPIL IVAN PUL'UJ NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
    Ternopil
    Course offerings: Operating Systems, Administration and monitoring computer networks and systems, database

United States

Alabama

  • CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    Childersburg, AL
    Course offerings: COBOL, RPG, Operating Systems

Arizona

  • UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
    Phoenix, AZ
    Course offerings: Introduce students to AIX as a flavor of UNIX. Information Systems, UNIX, Operaring Systems

Indiana

  • PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTH CENTRAL
    Westville, IN

Louisiana

  • LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Baton Rouge, LA
    Research: We have a Power7 cluster running AIX on which researchers run their numerical simulation jobs

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Missouri

  • MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Joplin, MO

Nebraska

  • METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    Omaha, NE
    Course offerings: AIX operating system

New York

  • CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    Ithaca, NY
    Research: We maintain a large DB2 database of beef and dairy cattle production and genetic data which is used by several research projects
  • MARIST COLLEGE
    Poughkeepsie, NY
    Course offerings: Introduction to AIX UNIX, Fundamentals of AIX Administration
    Research: We have a Linux Research Lab as well as an Enterprise Research Data Center that houses a z114 mainframe with zBladeCenter Extension. The ZBX includes both Power and x86 blades running Linux and AIX virtual machines. Faculty and partners of Marist College can obtain access to resources for research and development purposes. We also have standalone two pSeries CECs with HMC that we use to run our AIX courses.

North Carolina

  • CATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    Hickory, NC
  • NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY
    Greensboro, NC
    Course offerings: Intro to Unix, Special Topics in Data Appliances, Intro to DB Management

Oklahoma

  • UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
    Norman, OK
    Course offerings: Phys 6998 Computational Methods in Physics and Astrophysics
    Research: Supermovae, radiative transfer, radiation hydrodynamics

Pennsylvania

  • MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY
    Scranton, PA
    Course offerings: Database and programming languages
    Research: Analytics, Business Intelligence and Crowdsourcing
  • PENN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Willliamsport, PA

South Carolina

  • CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
    Charleston, SC
    Course offerings: Introduction to Midrange Computing

Texas

  • RICE UNIVERSITY
    Houston, TX

Virginia

  • VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
    Richmond, VA
    Research: UNIX/LINUX flavors are used on a majority of the servers that are used for supporting the course requirements and research needs.

Venezuela

  • UNITEC CCOLLEGE
    Valencia, Carabobo

Vietnam

  • CANTHO UNIVERSITY

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