About This Guide

This publication provides information about porting an application to the SGI Altix platform

Related Publications

The following SGI publications contain additional information that may be helpful for user's of SGI ProPack for Linux:

  • Linux Application Tuning Guide

  • Linux Configuration and Operations Guide

  • Linux Device Driver Programmer's Guide - Porting to SGI Altix Systems

  • Linux Resource Administration Guide

  • Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) User's Guide

  • Performance Co-Pilot for IA-64 Linux User's and Administrator's Guide

  • SGI Altix 3000 User's Guide

  • SCSL User's Guide

  • SGI ProPack for Linux Start Here

  • XFS for Linux Administration

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  • You can also view man pages by typing man <title> on a command line.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this publication:

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.

manpage(x)

Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.


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