Documentation regarding NCSA Ember
(an SGI Altix UV 1000 System)

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SGI public documentation:

• Data Sheet
  
• White Paper
  
  • Technical Advances in the SGI Altix UV Architecture
    
  • Hardware-accelerated MPI Implementation and Software Stack
    
• User Guide
  
  • SGI Performance Suite 1.0 Start Here
    
  • Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) User's Guide
    Chapter 6 contains info of PerfBoost. Chapter 7 contains info of XPMEM.
  • REACT Real-Time for Linux Programmer's Guide
    
  • Performance Co-Pilot Linux User's and Administrator's Guide
    
  • Unified Parallel C (UPC) User's Guide
    
  • Altix UV GRU Development Kit Programmer’s Guide
    Chapter 1 contains info of XPMEM.
  • Linux Resource Administration Guide
    
  • Linux Application Tuning Guide for SGI X86-64 Based Systems
    Chapter 5 contains info of NUMA tools.
  • PerfCatcher Manual Page
    
• Hardware Manual
  
  • Altix UV 1000 System User's Guide
    
  • SGI Altix UV System Configuration and Operations Guide
    Chapter 2 contains info of XPMEM.
• Additional Software Manual
  
  • SGI Foundation Software 2.2 Start Here
    
  • SGI Altix UV System Management Node Administrator's Guide
    
  • SGI Management Center Installation and Configuration
    
  • SGI Management Center System Administrator's Guide
    
  • Embedded Support Partner User Guide
    
  • Event Manager User Guide
    
  • SGI Altix UV CMC Controller Software User's Guide
    

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Ember-specific information:

• "cpumap" and "topology" output on ember-cmp2
  
  • cpumap
  • topology
  Note that Ember's login node has a different hardware (UV 10 instead of ember-cmp2's UV 1000), so running these 2 commands on the login node will generate totally different result.

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Last updated on January 26, 2011.