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© 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 

Hewlett-Packard Company shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. The 
information in this document is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind and is subject to change without 
notice. The warranties for HP products are set forth in the express limited warranty statements accompanying such 
products. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. 

HP High Performance Clusters LC Series Setup and Installation Guide 

March 2004 (Second Edition) 
Part Number 341524-002 
 

  

 

  

 

Summary of Contents for LC Series

Page 1: ...HP High Performance Clusters LC Series Setup and Installation Guide March 2004 Second Edition Part Number 341524 002 ...

Page 2: ... provided as is without warranty of any kind and is subject to change without notice The warranties for HP products are set forth in the express limited warranty statements accompanying such products Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP High Performance Clusters LC Series Setup and Installation Guide March 2004 Second Edition Part Number 341524 002 ...

Page 3: ...ata CD 10 HPC LC Series Cluster Installation 11 Overview 11 Step 1 Physical Planning 11 Step 2 Receiving the HPC LC Series Cluster 11 Step 3 Positioning the Racks 12 Rack Power 13 Rack Cooling 13 Step 4 Connecting External and Inter rack Cables 13 Power Cabling 14 Step 5 Powering On the Equipment 15 Step 6 Setting up the Out of Band Management Switch LC 1000 Series 17 Step 7 Setting up the Control...

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Page 5: ...hes and other components used in the HPC LC Series solution Audience Assumptions This guide is for the person who installs administers and troubleshoots servers HP assumes you are qualified in the servicing of computer equipment and trained in recognizing hazards in products with hazardous energy levels HP assumes that the user of this guide has advanced technical skills and has knowledge of the f...

Page 6: ...ng the telephone numbers listed below HP technical support will take calls on the cluster solution and will perform fault isolation If the problem is determined to be in the Cyclades product HP will pass the call along with our analysis to Cyclades for correction of the problem Before calling be prepared to provide the following information Product number of cluster or failing device Serial number...

Page 7: ...lation read the Important Safety Information document included with the product Also read the safety information details of the documentation included for each component HPC LC Series Product Overview The HPC LC Series product provides easy to order cluster solutions that are fully integrated and tested in the factory The clusters are shipped to their destination assembled in racks and ready for a...

Page 8: ...e cluster expansion The reference designs can easily be customized to support any node count cluster up to 128 nodes This setup guide covers the hardware installation of these reference design configurations The reference designs can be further customized with for example the addition of storage options or an operating system This setup guide does not cover these items Refer to the documentation t...

Page 9: ...t DL145 server based systems using IPMI ProCurve 2650 switches are used for Out of Band Management on DL360 server based systems using iLO Cluster interconnect network The cluster interconnect network is the main data network that connects all of the compute nodes for cluster interprocessor communication IPC and message passing interface MPI functions This network can be either a Myrinet Gigabit E...

Page 10: ... ordered with Linux or Microsoft operating systems installed Additionally application software can be installed on the cluster This setup guide does not cover setup or installation of operating systems and software however Storage Components Each HPC LC Series cluster can be customized with storage options These options will require setup and installation steps that are not covered by this guide U...

Page 11: ...ntilation and cooling for racks with servers and storage devices and has the appropriate high line power feeds installed For more information on datacenter design and planning please refer to Technology Brief TC030203TB at the link below This technology brief describes trends affecting datacenter design explains how to determine power and cooling needs and describes methods for cost effective cool...

Page 12: ...ple figure 1 below illustrates the proper rack positioning of a 128 node cluster solution The rack number is located on a label at the top rear of the cabinet Figure 1 Rack positioning for an HPC LC Series cluster solution The following spatial needs should be considered when deciding where to physically place the HPC LC Series cluster solutions Clearance in front of the rack unit should be a mini...

Page 13: ...Series solution to learn more about the recommended ambient temperatures Component placement in the rack is very important to ensure proper cooling Larger cluster interconnect switches for example must be located at the bottom of the rack to allow for additional cool air It is also very important to keep components installed in the servers as recommended such as hard disk drives CD ROM drives or t...

Page 14: ...nd be made available to the system before proceeding to use iLO on the control node It is also assumed that you are planning to use the control node as a DHCP server for the other cluster components Refer to the server s iLO documentation shipped with the cluster for more information Power Cabling Each 24A or 32A PDU shipped in the reference design LC Series solutions is comprised of one PDU Contr...

Page 15: ...ure that they did not come loose during shipping Table 1 Factory System Settings ProLiant DL380 Server BIOS settings for all LC Series configurations The operating system setting is set to Linux unless a Microsoft Windows operating system is ordered with the solution Hyper threading is disabled BIOS Settings for LC 1000 Series Clusters DL140 based to set up the Serial Console EMS Support EMS Conso...

Page 16: ... setting is set to Linux unless a Microsoft Windows operating system is ordered with the solution Hyper threading is disabled iLO settings The iLO DNS name is set to match the iLO cable label for each node The iLO username and password are set to Administrator on each node The iLO server label tags for each node are removed NOTE By default iLO is set to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server The ...

Page 17: ... recommends that you follow Cyclades Quick Start process which is detailed in the AlterPath Console Server User Guide This guide is included with the cluster shipment It is also available from the Cyclades website at www cyclades com Step 7 Setting up the Control Node The control node is connected to the TFT5600 monitor in the solution so you can directly control and monitor this server 1 First po...

Page 18: ...ptop or another server to the OOB switch for monitoring purposes In this last case you may need to temporarily connect a DHCP server to the OOB management network for server switch setup and verification 1 Power on each compute node and verify that it passes the power on self test POST 2 If the cluster was shipped with an operating system installed then the server will boot to the OS Once it has b...

Page 19: ...tructions supplied with the storage system for more information For More Information To learn more about HP High Performance Clusters LC Series visit the following website http www hp com go linuxclusters To learn more about HP High Performance Computing visit the following websites http www hp com techservers http www hp com techservers clusters http www hp com techservers resources example_custo...

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