This guide is a reference document for people who manage the operation of SGI computer systems. It describes how to use SGI Foundation Software 2.4 software on SGI computer systems.
For a list of current SGI software and hardware manuals, see the SGI Performance Suite 1.2 Start Here:
SGI documentation supporting SGI computer systems
Novell documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11)
Red Hat Enterprise Server 6 (RHEL 6)
Intel Compiler Documentation
Intel documentation about Xeon architecture
You can obtain SGI documentation in the following ways:
See the SGI Technical Publications Library at: http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.
Online versions of the SGI Performance Suite 1.2 Start Here, release notes, which contain the latest information about software and documentation for each SGI Performance Suite product, the list of RPMs distributed with each product can be found in the /docs directory on each SGI Performance Suite product media.
You can view man pages by typing man title on a command line.
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
| Convention | Meaning | |
| command | This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures. | |
| variable | Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined. | |
| user input | This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.) | |
| [ ] | Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line. | |
| ... | Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated. |
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