
| Table of Contents | 
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| About This Document | 9 | 
| Intended Audience | 9 | 
| Document Organization | 9 | 
| Typographic Conventions | 9 | 
| Related Information | 10 | 
| Publishing History | 10 | 
| HP Encourages Your Comments | 10 | 
| 1 Introduction | 
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| Where SVA Fits in the High Performance Computing Environment | 11 | 
| SVA Clusters | 12 | 
| Displays | 13 | 
| SVA Functional Attributes | 13 | 
| Scalability | 13 | 
| Flexibility | 13 | 
| Application Support | 14 | 
| OpenGL Applications | 14 | 
| Scenegraph Applications | 15 | 
| 2 SVA Architecture | 
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| SVA as a Cluster | 17 | 
| Background on Linux Clusters | 17 | 
| Architectural Design | 17 | 
| Components of the HP Cluster Platform | 18 | 
| Main Visualization Cluster Tasks | 18 | 
| Components of an SVA | 19 | 
| Configuration Flexibility | 19 | 
| SVA Operation | 19 | 
| Cluster Data Flow | 19 | 
| File Access | 20 | 
| 3 SVA Hardware and Software | 
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| Hardware Component Summary | 21 | 
| Network Configurations | 22 | 
| System Interconnect (SI) | 22 | 
| Administrative Network Connections | 22 | 
| Display Devices | 22 | 
| SVA Software Summary | 23 | 
| Linux Operating System | 23 | 
| HP XC Clustering Software | 24 | 
| Additional System Software | 24 | 
| 4 Setting Up and Running a Visualization Session | 
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| Configuration Data Files | 27 | 
| Running an Application Using Scripts | 27 | 
| Selecting a Template | 28 | 
| Modifying a Script Template | 28 | 
| Using a Script to Launch an Application | 29 | 
| Running an Interactive Session | 29 | 
| Table of Contents | 3 | 
