HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 3.1

HP Message Passing Interface
HP Message Passing Interface (HP-MPI) is an implementation of the MPI standard that has been integrated
in HP XC systems. The home page and documentation is located at the following Web site:
http://www.hp.com/go/mpi
HP Serviceguard
HP Serviceguard is a service availability tool supported on an HP XC system. HP Serviceguard enables
some system services to continue if a hardware or software failure occurs. The HP Serviceguard
documentation is available at the following Web site:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/ha.html
HP Scalable Visual Array (SVA)
The HP Scalable Visual Array is a scalable visualization solution that can be integrated with an HP XC
system. The SVA documentation is available at the following Web site:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/highperfcomp.html
HP Cluster Platform
The cluster platform documentation describes 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 available at the following Web site:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/highperfcomp.html
HP Integrity and HP ProLiant Servers
Documentation for HP Integrity and HP ProLiant servers is available at the following Web site:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/hw.html
7 Related information
Supplementary Software Products This section provides links to third-party and open source software
products 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. Documentation specific to LSF-HPC with SLURM
is provided in the HP XC documentation set.
Standard LSF is also available as an alternative resource management system (instead of LSF-HPC
with SLURM) for HP XC. This is the version of LSF that is widely discussed on the Platform Web
site.
For your convenience, the following Platform Computing Corporation 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, particularly the documentation
relating to the LSF-HPC integration with SLURM, supersedes the information supplied in the LSF
manuals from Platform Computing Corporation.
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