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