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Chapter 6. Factory integration and testing
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6.3 Documentation that is provided
This section describes the documentation IBM provides with the hardware. IBM
manufacturing uses the extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit (xCAT) to set up
and test systems. xCAT is also used to document the manufacturing that is set
up. Because it is a popular administration utility, the xCAT table files are included
with the system. The Cluster Enablement Team uses these files in the
commissioning of a cluster.
The following documentation also is provided in a binder with each rack and on a
CD with each rack:
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MAC addresses of the Ethernet interfaces
򐂰 Machine type, model number, and serial number of devices
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Firmware levels: For servers, these levels include:
– UEFI version
– IMM version
– On system diagnostics version
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Memory per server
򐂰 CPU type per server
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Proof that an operating system was running on each server, reporting the
output of
uname -r
for each node
򐂰 PCI adapter list for each server by using the lspci command
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Configuration files for switches
6.3.1 HPLinpack testing results: Supplied on request
The results of the HPLinpack testing can be provided to clients, if requested. The
documentation includes the following components:
򐂰 A listing of the software stack that is used, for example:
– HPL-2.0 with the Intel timestamping patch
– OpenBLAS v0.2.5-0-ge01b3d4
– Mellanox OFED
– gcc
– mvapich2 1.7-6.2012svn5140
– RHEL 6.2
򐂰 A run summary, which lists GFLOPS and run time
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The detailed text output from the HPL benchmark