This guide is a reference document for people who install and configure SGI® ICE™ X systems. It describes how to perform general system discovery, installation, configuration, and operations.
The release notes for the SGI Foundation Suite and the SGI Performance Suite list SGI publications that pertain to the specific software packages in those products. The release notes reside in a text file in the /docs directory on the product media. For example, SGI-MPI-1.x-readme.txt. After installation, the release notes and other product documentation reside in the /usr/share/doc/packages/product directory.
All SGI publications are available on the Technical Publications Library at the following website:
The following documentation might be useful to you:
SGI ICE X Administration Guide, publication 007-5918- xxx
This manual explains how to manage an SGI ICE X system.
SGI Management Center (SMC) Installation and Configuration
This manual is intended for system administrators. It describes how to install and configure the SGI Management Center.
SGI Management Center (SMC) System Administrator Guide
This manual describes how you can monitor and control a cluster using the SGI Management Center.
Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) User's Guide
Describes industry-standard message passing protocol optimized for SGI computers. This manual describes how to tune the run-time environment to improve the performance of an MPI message passing application on SGI computers. None of these ways involve application code changes.
MPInside Reference Guide
Documents the SGI MPInside MPI profiling tool.
SGI hardware documentation.
SGI creates hardware manuals that are specific to each product line. The hardware documentation typically includes a system architecture overview and describes the major components. It also provides the standard procedures for powering on and powering off the system, basic troubleshooting information, and important safety and regulatory specifications.
The following procedure explains how to retrieve a list of hardware manuals for your system.
Procedure 1. To retrieve hardware documentation
Type the following URL into the address bar of your browser:
docs.sgi.com |
In the search box on the Techpubs Library, narrow your search as follows:
In the search field, type the model of your SGI system.
For example, type one of the following: "UV 2000", "ICE X", Rackable.
Remember to enclose hardware model names in quotation marks ( " ") if the hardware model name includes a space character.
Check Search only titles.
Check Show only 1 hit/book.
Click search.
In addition to SGI documentation, the following documentation from other sources might interest you:
SUSE documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11)
Red Hat documentation for Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 6 (RHEL 6)
Intel compiler documentation
Intel documentation about Xeon architecture
You can obtain SGI documentation in the following ways:
See the SGI Technical Publications Library at the following website:
Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.
You can view man pages by typing man title on a command line.
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
| Convention | Meaning | |
| command | This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures. | |
| variable | Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined. | |
| user input | This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.) | |
| [ ] | Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line. | |
| ... | Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated. |
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