User`s guide

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System Procedures
Connecting a Keyboard and Mouse
A keyboard/mouse is not supplied as standard for the system but may be provided as
an option from SGI. Connect a USB keyboard and a USB mouse to your system, as shown
in
Figure 3-1. If your keyboard/mouse is further than 10 feet (3 meters) away from the
USB ports on the system, then optional USB extension cables are required.
Figure 3-1 SGI Altix XE Cluster Configuration
Base Gigabit Ethernet
switch for Admin.
InfiniBand
switch (MPI)
1U slide out
console
Remote workstation
monitor
Standard
RJ-45
twisted-pair
cable
InfiniBand cables
Customer Ethernet
Head Node
Compute Node
Compute Node
Compute Node
Graphics Node
InfiniBand
PCI card
Mouse
Keyboard
Monitor