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xvi IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Problem Determination Guide
Chapter 1. Introduction 1 This book discusses diagnostic and problem determination methodologies for an IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution (also known as Blue Gene/L). In this chapter, we give a brief overview of Blue Gene/L architecture and describe the networks and the system boot process. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. 1
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Page 6 and 7: 1.7.5 Microloader . . . . . . . . .
Page 8 and 9: 4.4.2 Principles of operation in a
Page 10 and 11: Installing LoadLeveler on SN and FE
Page 12 and 13: Trademarks The following terms are
Page 14 and 15: He holds a Master's Degree in Elect
Page 16 and 17: Frank Ingram Randal Massot Mike Nel
Page 20 and 21: 1.1 Blue Gene/L system overview In
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Page 24 and 25: 1.2.2 Midplane As the name suggests
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glsn:/bgl/BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys
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EndServiceAction logs its invocatio
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Repeat the discovery command for ea
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2.1 Introduction Whenever you have
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The Configuration section displays
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1 record(s) selected. Then check th
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The default location of control sys
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Table 2-6 Control system log for pe
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2.2.8 Job submission 2.2.9 Racks No
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2.2.10 Midplanes 2.2.11 Clock cards
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2.2.13 Link cards ► Using a DB2 s
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Figure 2-6 BGWEB table showing the
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2.2.15 Link summary You can view th
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2.2.16 Node cards Example 2-14 Disp
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Figure 2-10 Top of the page for the
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2.2.18 Compute or processor cards C
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To check the number of processor ca
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etc/shadow:bglsysdb:$1$SwI1..4e$iGN
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4. Use the /bin/ping command to che
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If you discover issues during the c
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2. If you need to restart BGLMaster
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2. After you are connected to the c
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2.3.8 Check that a simple job can r
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Figure 2-16 BGWEB showing job Infor
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To check the control system server
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If there is an issue with rsh, then
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2.3.13 Check the physical Blue Gene
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This methodology also allows someon
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- Hardware 3.2, “Hardware monitor
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BRIDGE (Debug): rm_add_job() - Comp
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3.1 Introduction This chapter expla
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Using the GUI If you have a graphic
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Figure 3-2 Querying the environment
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3.3.1 Starting the tool Figure 3-4
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Figure 3-5 Missing hardware in a re
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Block information The block informa
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In addition, the Show RAS events fo
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Figure 3-11 RAS drill down showing
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Figure 3-14 Testcase highlighting t
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3.4.1 Test cases The diagnostics su
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3.4.2 Starting the tool Test case D
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While the Web interface provides a
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4.1 Parallel programming environmen
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4.2 Compilers The following steps e
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Because these RPMs can be downloade
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4.2.2 The IBM XLC/XLF compilers Thi
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of providing this access for the ad
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The system administrator can set up
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Note: A similar configuration is pe
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► DB_PROPERTY This setting is def
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BRIDGE (Info) : The machine serial
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In Figure 4-3, clicking Runtime dis
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The Web page shown in Figure 4-4 al
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Figure 4-5 shows a diagram of the j
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Users and system administrators can
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A node part of a LoadLeveler cluste
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4.4.2 Principles of operation in a
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Start daemon (startd) runs on each
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The binaries are located in /bgl/Bl
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Because these variable are user spe
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4.4.8 LoadLeveler job submission pr
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Figure 4-14 shows the process of Lo
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Steps 5 and 6: Initializing the par
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Steps 8 and 9: Starting the paralle
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Service Node Central Manager Figure
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4. One of the start daemons is down
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Z = 0 ===== +------------+ | R000|
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Z = 0 ===== +----------------------
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You can use the llq -l command to
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Submitting Host: bglfen1.itso.ibm.c
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Note: The JOBID from Blue Gene/L da
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► #@ arguments This keyword conta
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LoadLeveler processes, logs, and pe
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You can configure the LoadLeveler d
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► STARTD_RUNS_HERE This keyword s
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For example, knowing how sockets wo
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5.1 NFS and GPFS In a basic configu
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sshd (optional) Starts the secure s
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1. Create NFS Server with storage a
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5.2.4 NFS checklists the simplest p
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Step 2 - Check if the NFS-FS can be
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# It mounts a filesystem on /scratc
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5.3 GPFS Example 5-6 Recommended ne
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However, if you have the following
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nodes and these have no boot/OS dis
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Important: The GPFS code that is in
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5.3.6 Creating the GPFS file system
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Installing the GPFS code for SN Fig
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You should see a list similar to th
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172.30.1.1 bglsn_fn OpenPower Servi
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Having created the /tmp/authorized_
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When the "GPFS_STARTUP=1" line is i
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Creating the bgIO cluster After you
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Mon Mar 20 14:14:34 2006: mmfsd rea
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Example 5-21 Telling clusters to au
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To mount the GPFS file system on th
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Example 5-25 Node definition file f
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5.3.9 GPFS problem determination me
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Checking the GPFS log files for pro
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Node number Node name GPFS state --
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Example 5-35 shows the output of th
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We also ran the mmlscluster command
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5.3.11 References For more informat
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6.1 Introduction In some scenarios,
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6.2.1 Hardware error: Compute card
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Example 6-2 mmcs message: service c
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Problem determination When we boote
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Looking in the system logs we see t
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Lessons learned The /tmp directory
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Lessons learned We learned the foll
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glsn:/bgl/BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys
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6.2.12 DB2 not started on the SN In
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Now we start DB2 on the SN; after D
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After changing the db.properties wi
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Current message level: 0x00000007 (
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As EndServiceAction did not complet
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Problem determination In this scena
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** error ** ** error ** ** error **
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 220 Mar 19 1
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Summary: api = MPIIO (version=2, su
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Are you sure you want to continue c
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Now that we know that the GPFS conf
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Lessons learned From this scenario,
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We can see that the partition is st
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Ckpt Execute Dir: Restart From Ckpt
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We realize that we cannot find eith
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Note: Even though we can manually c
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Step 1 Now we install the new Blue
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We used the updated script to retri
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Example 6-66 shows the files that w
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The BACKFILL scheduler with Blue Ge
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Log will be written to /bgl/BlueLig
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However, we were able to ssh to the
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8. We try to run a job. We start by
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Summary: api = MPIIO (version=2, su
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11.We test that we can boot a block
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delaying 1 seconds . . . write 6.61
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clients = 128 (16 per node) repetit
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Problem determination When we ran t
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7 ionode6 active 8 ionode7 active 9
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6.4.2 The mpirun command: environme
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BE_MPI (Info) : == BE completed ==
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Problem determination By default, t
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# bglfen1 test1 bglfen2 test1 bglsn
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6.4.4 LoadLeveler: scenarios descri
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FE_MPI (Info) : Scheduler interface
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The log messages indicate the job c
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Problem description A job submitted
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MAX_JOB_REJECT = 0 # # When ACTION_
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From the StartLog, we can see that
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Detailed checking We start by check
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Example 6-121 LoadLeveler basic che
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We first check the LoadLeveler Nego
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The error messages shown in Example
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04/05 15:30:28 TI-6 LoadLeveler: Ba
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To detect the left-over socket file
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7.1 Cluster Systems Management This
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7.1.2 Monitoring the Blue Gene/L da
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To simplify the earlier monitoring
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Description = This sensor is update
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To verify that all is working prope
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7.1.5 Miscellaneous related informa
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The cryptographic technique are emp
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► RC2/RC4 algorithms RC2: block c
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Secure shell server The secure shel
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Secure shell client programs also d
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► If this file exists, it checks
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► We restarted the ssh daemons on
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Installing LoadLeveler on SN and FE
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Create the home directory for user
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Example A-3 presents a sample LoadL
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Example A-4 presents a sample LoadL
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CKPT_CLEANUP_INTERVAL = 86400 # sam
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# STARTER = $(BIN)/LoadL_starter ST
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# MAX_JOB_REJECT = 0 # # When ACTIO
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The /bgl/dist/etc/rc.d/init.d/sitef
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# Parameter 1: "start" - perform st
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gl/BlueLight/ppcfloor/docs/ionode.R
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BGL_BLOCKID Name of block BGL_VERBO
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to by Normally, you should not have
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GPFS_VAR_DIR directory. GPFS_CONFIG
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$BGL_SITEDISTDIR/etc/rc.d/rc3.d dir
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# Handle startup (start) and shutdo
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Support for Subnets ---------------
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mv ramdisk.img2.gz ramdisk.img.gz L
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RSH Remote Shell SHA Secure Hash Al
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Online resources These Web sites an
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clock signal 11 cluster 168 Cluster
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mmauth 247-248, 261 mmchconfig 247,
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XL compilers 148 XLC/XLF 148 XLC/XL
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