Table of Contents

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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