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This course provides the experienced Linux® user with the skills and information needed to administer the SGI Altix 3000/4000 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 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) based Altix Environment . The class is based on the SLES10 with the additional SGI ProPack 5 software.
Topics Covered
- Overview of SGI Altix 3000/4000 hardware
- SLES Linux™ Environment
- SGI Altix SLES-10 installation with XFS® root
- SGI ProPack™ feature-specific installation
- SGI Altix SLES-10 upgrade procedure
- EFI shell and boot options
- Startup and shutdown
- MBR, GPT, and SGI partition tables
- parted disk partitioning tool
- XFS filesystems (mkfs.xfs) and filesystem management
- XVM - SGI Volume Manager
- Building concat, stripe, and mirror filesystems
- Setup for Performance Co-Pilot™
- SGI Numatools
- SGI Array Services
- SGI Ethernet setup
- Installing SGI specific kernel modules
- Intel compiler and module environment
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Plan and install SGI ProPack and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Plan and perform a software upgrade
- Configure EFI shell boot options and elilo.conf
- Startup (EFI startup) and shut down the Altix 3000 family server.
- Partition and build a system disk
- Build multipartition (concat, stripe, mirror) filesystems with XVM
- Setup and use Performance Co-Pilot (PCP)
- Install SGI specific kernel modules
- Install the Intel compiler environment modules
- Setup an array for SGI MPI applications
- Use taskset, dplace and cpusets to pin an application
Target Audience
Experienced Linux users who wish to administer an SGI Altix 3000/4000 family server or supercluster.
Prerequisites
Class Hours
Class starts at 9:00 AM. The course dates and times will be included in the confirmation notice you receive from SGI after you register.
