HP XC System Software Hardware Preparation Guide Version 2.1

HP Mathematical Library
The HP math libraries (MLIB ) support application developers wh o are looking for ways to
speed up development of n ew applications and s ho rten the execution tim e of long-running
technical applications. The home page is located at the following URL :
http://www.hp.com/go/mlib
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 the following URL:
http://www.docs.hp.com/
For More Information
The HP Web site has inform ation on this product. You can access the HP Web site at the
following UR L:
http://www.hp.com
Supplementary Information
This section contains links to third-pa rty and open source com ponents that are integrated
into the HP X C System Software core technology. In the XC documentation, except where
necessary, references to third-party and open source software components are generic, and the
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, the developer of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF).
LSF, the batch system resource manager used on an XC system, i s ti ght ly integrated with
the HP X C and SLURM software.
For your convenience, the following Platform LSF documen ts are shipped on the H
P
XC documentation CD in PDF format. The Platform LSF documents are also availabl
e
on the XC Web site.
- Administering Platform LSF
- Administration Primer
- Platform LSF Reference
- Quick Reference Card
- Running Jobs with Platform LSF
• 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 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. N agi os provides the monitoring capabilities on an XC system.
• http://supermon.sourceforge.net/
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