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Sun Fire Visual Grid System Installation and User's Guide

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Contents

Figures

Tables

Preface

1. Sun Fire Visual Grid System Overview

Overview

Installation Kit

Installation Process Overview

Technical Support

2. Sun Fire Visual Grid System Software Requirements

Operating Environment Requirements

Sun Fire Visual Grid Software Packages

Software Packages

Software Package Locations

Software Patches

Sun OpenGL for Solaris Software

Sun OpenGL for Solaris Software Packages

Sun OpenGL for Solaris Patches

Other Software Requirements

3. Sun Fire Visual Grid System Hardware Requirements

Graphics Accelerator Hardware

Network Hardware

Myrinet Networking Cards

Ethernet Networking Cards

USB Card

Serial Port

Keyboard, Video, and Mouse Extenders

Supported Configurations

4. Installing the Sun Fire Visual Grid System

System Configuration Examples

Site Hardware Preparation

Administration Workstation

Setting Up an Ethernet Network

Installing a Myrinet Card

Installing the Myrinet PCI Cards in a Sun Fire 4800/6800

Installing the Myrinet PCI Cards in a Sun Fire V880z

Cabling the Master and Slaves

Installing a USB Card

Installing the Software

Redirecting the Slave Console Output

Upgrading the Sun Fire Visual Grid Software

Interchanging a Master and Slave

Changing a Master to a Slave Computer

Removing a Slave Computer

Configuring the Frame Buffer Attributes

5. System Administration

dzadmin Administration Tool

Administration Tool Overview

Using Xinerama and dzadmin

The System Administration Tool Menus

File Menu

Actions Menu

Starting the dzadmin System Administration Tool

Using the dzadmin System Administration Tool

dzstatus Status Tool

Sun Fire Visual Grid Limitations

Framelock and Genlock

6. Security

dzdaemon Daemon

Role-Based Access

A. Troubleshooting

Log Files

General Troubleshooting Information

Verifying the Myrinet Software

Index