HP XC Information

The HP XC System Software Documentation Set includes the following core documents. All HP XC documents except the HP XC System Software Release Notes are shipped on the HP XC Documentation CD. All HP XC documents including the HP XC System Software Release Notes are available on line at:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/highperfcomp.html

HP XC System Software Release Notes	Contains important, last-minute information about firmware, software, or hardware that might affect your system. This document is available only on line.
HP XC Hardware Preparation Guide	Describes tasks specific to HP XC that are required to prepare each supported cluster platform for installation and configuration, including required node and switch connections.
HP XC System Software Installation Guide	Provides step-by-step instructions for installing the HP XC System Software on the head node and configuring the system.
HP XC System Software Administration Guide	Provides an overview of the HP XC system administrative environment and describes cluster administration tasks, node maintenance tasks, LSF® administration tasks, and troubleshooting procedures.
HP XC System Software User's Guide	Provides an overview of managing the HP XC user environment with modules, managing jobs with LSF, and how to build, run, debug, and troubleshoot serial and parallel applications on an HP XC system.

The following documents are also provided by HP for use with your HP XC system:

Linux Administration Handbook

A third-party Linux reference manual, Linux Administration Handbook, is shipped with the HP XC System Software Documentation Set. This manual was authored by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, et al (NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002).

QuickSpecs for HP XC System Software

The QuickSpecs for HP XC System Software provides a product overview, hardware requirements, software requirements, software licensing information, ordering information, and information about commercially available software that has been qualified to interoperate with the HP XC System Software.

The QuickSpecs are located at:

http://www.hp.com/go/clusters

HP XC Program Development Environment

The following URL provides pointers to tools that have been tested in the HP XC program development environment (for example, TotalView® and other debuggers, compilers, and so on):

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/xc/pde/index.html

HP Message Passing Interface

HP Message Passing Interface (MPI) is an implementation of the MPI standard for HP systems. The home page is located at:

http://www.hp.com/go/mpi

HP Cluster Platform Documents

The cluster platform documents describe site requirements, show you how to physically set up the servers and additional devices, and provide procedures to operate and manage the hardware. These documents are shipped with your hardware.

Documentation for the HP Integrity and HP ProLiant servers is available at:

http://www.docs.hp.com/

For More Information

The HP Web site has information on this product. You can access the HP Web site at:

http://www.hp.com

Supplementary Information

This section contains links to third-party and open source components that are integrated into the HP XC System Software core technology. In the HP XC documentation, except where necessary, references to third-party and open source software components are generic, and the HP XC adjective is not added to any reference to a third-party or open source command or product name. For example, the SLURM srun command is simply referred to as the srun command.

The location of each Web site or link to a particular topic listed in this section is subject to change without notice by the site provider.

http://www.platform.com
Home page for Platform Computing Corporation, the developer of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF). LSF HPC with SLURM, the batch system resource manager used on an HP XC system, is tightly integrated with the HP XC and SLURM software. Standard LSF is also available as an alternative.
For your convenience, the following Platform LSF documents are shipped on the HP XC documentation CD in PDF format:
- Administering Platform LSF
- Administration Primer
- Platform LSF Reference
- Quick Reference Card
- Running Jobs with Platform LSF
LSF procedures and information supplied in the HP XC documentation supersedes the information supplied in the LSF manuals from Platform.
The Platform LSF manpages are installed by default. The lsf_diff(7) manpage supplied by HP describes LSF command differences on an HP XC system.
See the following sources for more information about LSF:
- LSF administrator tasks are documented in the HP XC System Software Administration Guide.
- LSF user tasks such as launching and managing jobs are documented in the HP XC System Software User's Guide.
- To view LSF manpages supplied by Platform Computing Corporation use the following command:
  $ man lsf_command_name
- The LSF Administrator and Reference guides developed by Platform are also available at:
  http://www.docs.hp.com/en/highperfcomp.html
http://www.llnl.gov/LCdocs/slurm/
Home page for the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), which is integrated with LSF to manage job and compute resources on an HP XC system.
http://www.nagios.org/
Home page for Nagios®, a system and network monitoring application. Nagios watches specified hosts and services and issues alerts when problems occur and when problems are resolved. Nagios provides the monitoring capabilities on an HP XC system.
http://supermon.sourceforge.net/
Home page for Supermon, a high-speed cluster monitoring system that emphasizes low perturbation, high sampling rates, and an extensible data protocol and programming interface. Supermon works in conjunction with Nagios to provide HP XC system monitoring.
http://www.llnl.gov/linux/pdsh/
Home page for the parallel distributed shell (pdsh), which executes commands across HP XC client nodes in parallel.
http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/
Home page for syslog-ng, a logging tool that replaces the traditional syslog functionality. The syslog-ng tool is a flexible and scalable audit trail processing tool. It provides a centralized, securely stored log of all devices on your network.
http://systemimager.org
Home page for SystemImager®, which is the underlying technology that is used to install the HP XC software, distribute the golden image, and distribute configuration changes.
http://www.etnus.com
Home page for Etnus, Inc., maker of the TotalView® parallel debugger.
http://www.macrovision.com
Home page for Macrovision®, developer of the FLEXlm™ license management utility, which is used for HP XC license management.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/modules/
Home page for Modules, which provide for easy dynamic modification of a user's environment through modulefiles, which typically instruct the module command to alter or set shell environment variables.
http://dev.mysql.com/
Home page for MySQL AB, developer of the MySQL database. This Web site contains a link to the MySQL documentation, particularly the MySQL Reference Manual.

Manpages

Manpages provide online reference and command information from the command line. Manpages are supplied with the HP XC system for standard HP XC components, Linux user commands, LSF commands, and other software components that are distributed with the HP XC system.

Manpages for third-party vendor software components may be provided as a part of the deliverables for that component.

Using the discover(8) manpage as an example, you can use either of the following commands to display a manpage:

$ man discover
$ man 8 discover

If you are not sure about a command you need to use, enter the man command with the k option to obtain a list of commands that are related to the keyword. For example:

$ man -k keyword