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The Urika-GX System
The Urika-GX system is a big data analytics platform optimized for analytic workflows. It combines a highly
advanced hardware platform with a comprehensive analytic software stack to help derive optimal business value
from data. The Urika-GX platform provides the tools required for capturing and organizing a wide variety of data
types from different sources and enables analyzing big data and discovering hidden relationships.
The Urika-GX system also features a number of workload management tools as well as an optimized system
administration tool for performing monitoring and management tasks.
For a list of features of the Urika-GX system, see S-3017, "Urika
®
-GX System Overview".
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Administrative Components of Urika-GX
Urika-GX platforms have been developed by tightly integrating commodity hardware components, open-source
software, and Cray proprietary hardware, to provide users a high performance, scalable and open compute
platform.
Major administrative components of Urika-GX include:
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System Management Workstation (SMW) - The SMW is a server that acts as a single-point interface to a
system administrator's environment. It provides an interface for performing administrative and monitoring
capabilities.
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Hardware Supervisory System (HSS) - HSS is an integrated system of hardware and software
components that are used for managing and monitoring the system.
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Cobbler - Cobbler is used on Urika-GX for provisioning and deployment.
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Rack Controller (RC) - The RC monitors the environmental sensors within the rack and manages
communication between the SMW and other physical system components, including the rack, sub-rack and
dANC (Dual Aries Network Card).
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Intelligent Subrack Control Board (iSCB) - The iSCB status command can be used to monitor the physical
attributes of the sub-rack, such as the power supply, amperage, fan status, and temperature.
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Aries Network Card Controller (ANCC) - Each sub-rack chassis of the Urika-GX system contains two
dANCs (dual Aries Network Cards). Each dANC contains 2 Aries chips, an Advanced RISC Machines (ARM)
processor, and a number of environmental sensors to help monitor the system.
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Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) - The iDRAC is a hardware that provides advanced
agentless system management functionality for the SMW. It operates independently of the SMW's CPU and
operating system. The version of iDRAC used on the Urika-GX system is iDRAC8.
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System Monitoring and Performance Analysis Tools - Urika-GX ships with Grafana and Nagios. These
tools enable monitoring system resources and viewing performance statistics of various system components.
For more information, see S-3015, "Urika
®
-GX Analytic Applications Guide".
The Urika-GX System
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