PAR Technologies V5 manual About this document

About this document

In the middle of 2004, all rights on ParaStation where transferred from ParTec AG to the ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH. This new company takes a much more service-oriented approach to the customer. The main goal is to deliver integrated and complete software stacks for LINUX-based compute clusters by selecting state-of-the-art software components and driving software development efforts in areas where real added value can be provided. The ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH continues to develop and support the ParaStation product as an important part of it's portfolio.

At the end of 2007, ParaStation5 was released supporting MPI2 and even more interconnects and especially protocols, like DAPL. ParaStation5 is backward compatible to the previous ParaStation4 version.

1.3. About this document

This manual discusses installation, configuration and administration of ParaStation5. Furthermore, all the system management utilities are described.

For a detailed discussion of the user utilities and the programming interfaces included in the standard distribution take a look at the ParaStation5 User's Guide and the API reference, respectively.

This document describes version 5.0 of the ParaStation software. Previous versions of ParaStation are no longer covered by this document. Information about these outdated versions can be found in previous versions of this document.

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