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This course provides the experienced Linux® user with the skills and information needed to administer the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters. Lab exercises are included to prepare students for the actual work environment.
** Note ** This class is specifically for customers who are using the SGI Advanced Linux Environment (SALE) and the ProPack 3.0 Environment. This class does NOT use the SuSE software.
Topics Covered
- Overview of SGI Altix 3000 hardware
- SGI Advanced Linux Environment installation with XFS® root
- SGI ProPack™ 3.0 feature-specific installation
- EFI shell and boot options
- Startup and shutdown
- EFI shell commands/displays
- Disk formatting and partitioning
- MBR, GPT, and SGI partition tables
- fdisk/sfdisk/parted
- XFS filesystems (mkfs.xfs) and filesystem management
- XVM (lecture/lab)
- Building XVM concat, stripe, and mirror filesystems
- Setup SGI Embedded Support Partner - ESP
- Setup for Performance Co-Pilot™
- System core dump archive recovery
- LKCD-system dumps
- SGI Ethernet setup
- Setting up the user module environment (ie. for Intel compilers)
- Introduction to lcrash
- LKCD-system dumps
- Setting up Process Aggregation Group (PAGG) - Job IDs
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Plan and install SGI ProPack 3.0 and SGI Advanced Linux Environment
- Configure EFI shell boot options and elilo.conf
- Startup (EFI startup) and shut down the SGI Altix system.
- Archive a system core dump
- Partition a disk
- Describe the SGI Linux Environment features for XFS
- Build multipartition (concat, stripe, mirror) filesystems with XVM
- Setup of Performance Co-Pilot
- Install SGI technology-specific kernel modules
- Use lcrash/system dumps
- Install the Intel compiler environment modules
Target Audience
Experienced Linux users who wish to administer an SGI Altix 3000 family server or supercluster.
Prerequisites
