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VIDEO: Unpacking your Flexible Storage System
Thank you for your purchase! This page will provide a quick overview of how to unpack your Flexible Storage System (FSS) and install it into a rack. Weight warning WARNING: The FSS weighs 95 lbs....
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VIDEO: Unpacking your cluster
Thank you for your purchase! This page will provide a quick overview of how to unpack your system and move it into it's final location. Weight warning WARNING: The components of an Apex Cluster can be...
View ArticlePrimer: 3Ware 9xxx raid cards
3ware 9xxx cards have a finite number of ports, typically, 8, 12, or 16. Each port may have: One drive attached No drive attached If a drive is attached, it may be: Part of a raid unit (u0, u1, u2,...
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Make a bootable CD of our bootimage environment
Visit http://www.advancedclustering.com and click 'Downloads' from the 'Support' menu. Click 'Our Software' Our software releases will increase in number over time, so browse this page to find the...
View ArticleI'm getting MCE (Machine Check Exception) errors, what does this mean?
If you are seeing messages in my system logs that state "Machine Check Event logged" this could be an indication of a hardware problem or failure. What are Machine Check Exceptions (or MCE)? A machine...
View ArticleI'm getting a message about a kernel panic, what is that?
What is a kernel panic? A message displayed by the Linux kernel upon detecting an internal system error from which it cannot recover. Kernel panics are often software errors, but many times can an...
View ArticleHow do I tune my HPL.dat file?
label { width: 13.5em; float: left; margin-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.2em; text-align: left; display: block; font-weight: bold; } Tuning HPL can be a long and difficult process. Once you've found...
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Get remote assistance using BootImage
With the BootImage CD in the CD-Rom drive, boot the computer. It should come to a menu like the image below: Press [Down-Arrow], then [Tab] to select 'With SSH server (F1 for info)' and see its kernel...
View ArticleEnable serial console support
What is serial console support? Serial console will allow you to send all text based output to one of the onboard serial ports. When combined with a remote console device like a terminal server, will...
View ArticleCreating a floppy disk from a disk image
Create the Disk in Linux Insert a blank floppy disk into the floppy drive. Be sure that the write protect tab is closed Run the following command as root: dd if=<image file name> of=/dev/fd0 Wait...
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