HP XW8400 - Manual (Page 5)

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Introduction
Summary
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Lustre Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Optional Lustre Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Typical Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Workflow for Hardware Setup and Application Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hardware Configuration Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Notation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
About This Guide
This guide describes how to set up the HP xw8400 workstation and the other hardware
components of your Autodesk® Lustre® 2007 workgroup. The HP xw8400 workstation is
available for Lustre systems on Windows®, as well as for Autodesk Incinerator™ Lustre systems
on Linux®. To install and configure hardware and software components, use this guide in
conjunction with the following documents: the Autodesk Lustre Software Installation Guide for
Windows Workstations, the Autodesk Incinerator 2007 Installation and User’s Guide for Lustre
with Incinerator, and the Stone Direct Configuration Guide for this release.
N OTE : In most cases, both hardware setup and application installation are done on delivery by an
authorized technician, so you may not need to perform some of the procedures in these guides.
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