User`s guide

007-5474-003 v
Contents
1. SGI Altix XE Cluster Quick-reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Site Plan Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Unpacking and Installing a Cluster Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Booting the XE Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SGI Altix XE250 and XE270 Node Front Controls and Indicators . . . . . . . . . 3
Altix XE320 or XE340 Compute Node Controls and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cluster Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Power Down the Cluster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Powering Off Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cluster Management (Head Node) IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Changing the NIC1 (Customer Domain) IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cluster Compute Node IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Switch Connect and IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Web or Telnet Access to Maintenance Port on the Gigabit Ethernet Switch . . . . . . . 19
Web or Telnet Access to the Compute-Traffic Gigabit Ethernet Switch . . . . . . . . 19
Serial Access to the SMC Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
InfiniBand Switch Connect and IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Web or Telnet Access to the InfiniBand Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Serial Access to the Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Using the 1U Console Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing or Updating Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Accessing BIOS Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Platform Manage Troubleshooting Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
NFS Quick Reference Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27