HP XC System Software Release Notes for Version 2.1
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General Notes
This chapter contains general information that applies to the XC system as a whole.
2.1 XC System Naming
Throughout the HP XC System Software Documentation Set, the following terms
are used to denote an HP Cluster Platform on which HP XC System Software
has been installed:
XC Name Cluster Platform (CP) Model Chip Architecture
XC3000 Cluster Platform 3000 Xeon with EM64T
XC4000 Cluster Platform 4000 AMD Opteron
XC6000 Cluster Platform 6000 Intel Itanium 2
2.2 Master Firmware Revision Table
The HP XC System Software is qualified against specific firmware revisions, and
you can obtain the table of supported firmware revisions on line at:
http://www.hp.com/techservers/clusters/xc_clusters.html
2.3 Obtaining XC Documentation
In addition to the printed copy of the HP XC System Software Documentation Set
you received with your system, all XC manuals except the HP XC System Software
Release Notes are shipped in PDF and HTML format on the XC documentation CD
you received with your software distribution kit.
All XC manuals, including the HP XC System Software Release Notes, are available
on line from the XC Clusters Web site at:
http://www.hp.com/techservers/clusters/xc_clusters.html
Additional XC-specific topics that are documented after the HP XC System
Software Documentation Set is published are issued on line as HowTo documents,
which are available at the same URL as the XC manuals.
As an added convenience, the XC manuals and HowTo documents are also available
from the official HP documentation Web site, which is located at:
http://www.docs.hp.com
The HP XC documentation is located under the Linux category.
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