HP XC System Software Hardware Preparation Guide Version 3.0
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.hp.com/techservers/clusters/xc_clusters.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
System Software, distribute the golden image, and distribute configuration changes.
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