Red Hat NETWORK WORKGROUP - USER 1.0 Installation Guide

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x 007-5680-001About This GuideHelpful Online ResourcesThis section describes the electronic support services available for your SGI systemrunning SGI

About This Guide007-5680-001 xi• SGI Customer Support CenterYou can open calls to the SGI Customer Support Center online, keep track of allyour cases,

xii 007-5680-001About This GuideRelated PublicationsDocuments listed inthissectioncontainadditionalinformationthatmight behelpful, asfollows:• “Novell

About This Guide007-5680-001 xiiiRed Hat DocumentationDocumentation for RHEL6 is located in the /usr/share/doc directory. It containspackage-specific d

xiv 007-5680-001About This GuideOther Intel DocumentationThe following references describe the Itanium (previously called “IA-64”) architectureand oth

About This Guide007-5680-001 xvDocuments the SGI implementation of the Unified Parallel C (UPC) parallelextension to the C programming language standar

xvi 007-5680-001About This GuideThis guides describes how you can monitor and control a cluster using the SGIManagement Center. A companion manual, SG

About This Guide007-5680-001 xviiDescribes how to perform administration of the Data Migration Facility (DMF).DMF is a hierarchical storage management

xviii 007-5680-001About This GuideDescribes the features of the Altix XE250 server system as well as troubleshooting,upgrading, and repairing.• SGI Al

About This Guide007-5680-001 xix• SGI Altix 3700Bx2 User’s GuideThis guide provides an overview of the architecture and descriptions of the majorcompo

COPYRIGHT© 2010, SGI. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is grante

xx 007-5680-001About This Guide• SGI Origin 400 System User’s GuideThis manual is written for system technicians who are responsible fortroubleshootin

About This Guide007-5680-001 xxiObtaining SGI PublicationsYou can obtain SGI documentation in the following ways:• See the SGI Technical Publications

You can contact SGI in any of the following ways:• Send e-mail to the following address:[email protected]• Contact your customer service representative

007-5680-001 1Chapter 11. Release FeaturesThischapterprovidesan introductionto SGIPerformance Suite1.0releaseand describesthe software bundle’s CD con

2 007-5680-0011: Release FeaturesSGI Performance Suite Software BundlesThis section describes the main contents of the SGI Performance Suite 1.0 relea

SGI Performance Suite Software Bundles007-5680-001 3Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) User’s Guide.Unified Parallel C (UPC) User’s Guide.For more informati

4 007-5680-0011: Release FeaturesSGI® UPCSGI®UPCis animplementation of theUnifiedParallel C(UPC) parallelextensionto theC programming language standard

SGI Performance Suite Software Bundles007-5680-001 5SGI® Accelerate™SGI® Accelerate™ is used to accelerate applications with optimized software librar

6 007-5680-0011: Release Featuressoftwareonly on SGI systems. See the PACKAGE_LICENSES.txt file thatis available inthe /docs directory of the appropria

Getting Updates007-5680-001 7• “SGI Foundation 2.2 Updates” on page 8Detailed instructions for downloadingand installingupdates areavailable fromthe S

007-5680-001 iiiRecord of RevisionVersion Description001 October 2010Original publication. Supports the SGI Performance Suite 1.0 release.

8 007-5680-0011: Release FeaturesRHEL 6 UpdatesSoftware updates for RHEL 6 are provided by Red Hat. As a Red Hat Enterprise Linuxcustomer, you receive

SGI Open Source Information007-5680-001 9For additional information on how to configure YaST Online Update to downloadupdatesforSGIFoundation2.2loginto

10 007-5680-0011: Release Features– Added information about the discover command generic hardware type usedfor Ethernet switches in large SGI Altix IC

007-5680-001 11Chapter 22. Software InstallationNote: SGI Performance Suite 1.0 software requires the SGI Foundation Software 2.2release. For more inf

12 007-5680-0012: Software InstallationAdding the xfs_quota Variable to the initrd Boot ImageYou need to add xfs_quota to the INITRD_MODULES variable

007-5680-001 13Upgrading from an Earlier SLES Base and SGI ProPack ReleaseUpgrade instructions for SGI Performance Suite 1.0 software are contained in

007-5680-001 15Chapter 33. SGI Peformance Suite Products OverviewThis chapter documents the product components that are supported on the SGIcomputer s

16 007-5680-0013: SGI Peformance Suite Products OverviewForinformation onhowthese productsarebundle,see“SGI PerformanceSuite SoftwareBundles” on page

SGI Performance Suite 1.0 Products007-5680-001 17SGI does not support the following:• Base Linux softwarenot released byNovell forSLES 11 SP1or byRed

18 007-5680-0013: SGI Peformance Suite Products OverviewOperating System EnhancementsBuildingontheLinuxoperatingsystem’srapidexpansionandimprovementsf

I/O Subsystems007-5680-001 19PartitioningSGI provides the ability to divide a single SGI Altix system into a collection of smallersystem partitions. E

20 007-5680-0013: SGI Peformance Suite Products OverviewXFS FilesystemThe SGI XFS filesystem provides a high-performance filesystem for Linux. XFS is an

NUMA Data Placement Tools007-5680-001 21Message Passing ToolkitThe SGI Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) provides industry-standard message passinglibrari

22 007-5680-0013: SGI Peformance Suite Products OverviewNote: Performance tuning information for single processor and multiprocessorprograms resides i

NUMA Data Placement Tools007-5680-001 23performance reasons. Therefore, forcing a specific CPU affinity is useful only in certainapplications.For more i

007-5680-001 25IndexAArray Services, description, 16CCD contents, 2Cpuset system, 18Ddlook command, 22dplace command, 22GGetting software updates

26 007-5680-001IndexOS enhancementscpuset support, 18for HPC environments, 18partitioning, 19PPerformance Co-Pilot support, 21Persistent namingEth

007-5680-001 vContentsRecord of Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

vi 007-5680-001ContentsGetting Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

007-5680-001 viiTablesTable 3-1 SGI Performance Suite 1.0 Products . . . . . . . . . . 16

007-5680-001 ixAbout This GuideNote: SGI Performance Suite 1.0 software requires the SGI Foundation Software 2.2release. For more information, see the