HP Z800 manual Introduction, About This Guide, Related Documentation, Topics in this chapter

Introduction 1

Topics in this chapter:

■About This Guide on page 1

■Related Documentation on page 1

■Notation Conventions on page 2

■Contacting Customer Support on page 2

About This Guide

This guide describes how to set up the HP® Z800 workstation hardware and wiring for an Autodesk® Visual Effects, Finishing, or Colour Grading application. This includes Autodesk® Lustre®, and the following Visual Effects and Finishing applications: Autodesk® Inferno®, and Autodesk® Flame®, Autodesk® Flint®, Autodesk® Smoke®, and Autodesk® Backdraft® Conform.

NOTE In most cases, both hardware setup and application installation is done on delivery by an authorized technician. If this is the case, please keep this guide as a reference, in case you decide to move the workstation, change a peripheral, replace an adapter card, etc.

Related Documentation

This release has additional documentation to help you install, configure, and use the hardware and software.

At various places in this guide, references are made to other documents. Depending on your hardware and software configuration and network topology, you may want to have additional documentation on hand before you begin setting up the hardware:

■Autodesk Visual Effects and Finishing Installation and Configuration Guide

■Autodesk Lustre Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux Workstations

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