HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 3.0

The QuickSpecs are located at:
http://www.hp.com/techservers/clusters/xc_clusters.html
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:
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