Preface - Sun Microsystems Sun HPC 3.0 Manual

Preface

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The Sun HPC 3.0 SCI Guide is intended for experienced system administrators.
How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 1, provides an overview of the Sun HPC SCI subsystem, including
descriptions of the principal hardware and software components.
Chapter 2, outlines the procedure for connecting the cluster nodes to an SCI network
in the various supported topologies.
Chapter 3, explains how to configure the network interfaces on the cluster nodes.
Chapter 4, provides a set of procedures that can be used to check the basic
functionality of the network.
Chapter 5, describes the procedure for configuring a newly installed SCI adapter card.
Chapter 6, describes techniques for solving failures of the SCI interface.
Appendix A, contains man pages related to the SCI interface.
Appendix B, lists system messages related to the SCI interface.
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