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Quick Start Guide
007-4417-001

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  • Page 1 ® Altix ™ Quick Start Guide 007-4417-001...
  • Page 2 COPYRIGHT © 2004, Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved; provided portions may be copyright in third parties, as indicated elsewhere herein. No permission is granted to copy, distribute, or create derivative works from the contents of this electronic documentation in any manner, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
  • Page 3 Record of Revision Version Description January 2004 Original publication 007-4417-001...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Cabling for an Altix 350 System . Attaching a Serial Terminal to an Altix 350 System Powering and Booting an Altix 350 System from a Serial Terminal . Powering and Booting From an L1 System Controller Powering and Booting From an L2 System Controller .

  • Page 7: Figures

    Figures Connecting an Altix 350 Non-Racked System to Power Figure 1-1 Connecting an Altix 350 Racked System to Power . Figure 1-2 Cabling in a Two-module Altix 350 System . Figure 1-3 Cabling in a Three-module Altix 350 System Figure 1-4 Connecting a Serial Terminal to an L1 Controller .

  • Page 9: Sgi Altix 350 Quick Start Guide

    This book guides a knowledgeable user through the installation, setup, and simple configuration of most SGI Altix 350 systems. For more detailed information, or for setup instructions for more complex Altix 350 systems, please refer to the SGI Altix 350 User’s Guide.

  • Page 10: Positioning And Powering An Altix 350 System

    Positioning an Altix 350 System If your Altix 350 system was shipped as a number of individual chassis, they may be placed on a flat surface, as shown in Figure 1-1 on page 3, or placed in a rack. For instructions on mounting Altix 350 chassis in a rack, and for information about rack positioning, refer to the SGI Altix 350 User’s Guide.

  • Page 11: Powering An Altix 350 System

    Positioning and Powering an Altix 350 System Powering an Altix 350 System Plug your Altix 350 system into a suitable power outlet, as shown in Figure 1-1 (for non-racked chassis) or Figure 1-2 (for racked chassis). Refer to the Altix 350 User’s Guide for detailed power requirements.

  • Page 12: Figure 1-2 Connecting An Altix 350 Racked System To Power

    CMPX G2N-brick module CMPX G2N-brick module CMPX G2N-brick module CMPX module CMPX module Power Power source distribution CMPX unit (PDU) module Base Compute module Components within rack Figure 1-2 Connecting an Altix 350 Racked System to Power 007-4417-001...

  • Page 13: Cabling For An Altix 350 System

    350 System” on page 7. This section describes the NUMAlink cabling for some simple configurations. For instructions to cable more complex systems, see the SGI Altix 350 User’s Guide. Figure 1-3 shows a system with a base compute module and a CMPX module.

  • Page 14: Figure 1-4 Cabling In A Three-Module Altix 350 System

    1: SGI Altix 350 Quick Start Guide Figure 1-4 shows a system with a base compute module, one CMPX module, and one CPU expansion module. expansion module NUMAlink 0 NUMAlink 1 CMPX module NUMAlink 0 NUMAlink 1 Base compute module...

  • Page 15: Attaching A Serial Terminal To An Altix 350 System

    Attaching a Serial Terminal to an Altix 350 System If your Altix 350 system was shipped in a rack without an optional Level 2 controller, or was shipped as individual chassis, you should connect a serial terminal to the Level 1 controller contained in the host system master CPU module as shown in Figure 1-5.

  • Page 16: Figure 1-6 Connecting A Serial Terminal To An L2 Controller

    1: SGI Altix 350 Quick Start Guide If your Altix 350 system was shipped in a rack with an optional Level 2 controller, you should connect a serial terminal to that Level 2 controller, which is located in the top of the rack as shown in Figure 1-6 (this view shows the back of the rack).

  • Page 17: Powering And Booting An Altix 350 System From A Serial Terminal

    Powering and Booting From an L1 System Controller Use the following steps to connect your Altix 350 system via serial cable to the L1 controller (see Figure 1-5): Attach a serial cable to the lowest compute node in the system using the following: •...
  • Page 18 1: SGI Altix 350 Quick Start Guide 4. From the L1 prompt enter the command “cfg” This should return a list of all the modules in the system. 001-L2>cfg L2 137.38.68.26: - 001 (LOCAL) L1 137.38.68.26:0:0 - 001c01 L1 137.38.68.26:0:1 - 001c03 L1 137.38.68.26:0:5...

  • Page 19: Powering And Booting From An L2 System Controller

    Powering and Booting an Altix 350 System from a Serial Terminal Powering and Booting From an L2 System Controller Use the following steps to connect your Altix 350 system via serial cable to an optional L2 controller (see Figure 1-6): Attach a serial cable to the lowest compute node in the system using the following: •...
  • Page 20 1: SGI Altix 350 Quick Start Guide 3. To power up the system, enter the L2 command “pwr u” 001-L2>pwr u 001-L2> 4. When the L2 prompt returns, enter a “cntrl d” to break in to the console. This will show the output of the power on boot process.

  • Page 21: Troubleshooting An Altix 350 System

    Troubleshooting an Altix 350 System Troubleshooting an Altix 350 System If you are experiencing problems with your Altix 350 system, you can follow the steps detailed in the SGI Altix 350 User’s Guide to help isolate and correct the problem.

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