Documentation Overview¶

The Scyld ClusterWare documentation set:

The Quickstart Guide contains a brief how-to for installing and configuring a basic functional cluster.
The Release Notes is a summary of notable changes for the latest Scyld ClusterWare Release v12.1.1.
The Supported Distributions and Features is a table summarizing the ClusterWare-supported distributions, security functionality, job schedulers, and OpenMPI-class middleware.
The Cluster Overview and Terminology Guide is a general overview of a ClusterWare hardware and software architecture and terminology.
The Installation & Administrator Guide describes in detail how to install, configure, use, maintain, and update the cluster.
The Reference Guide describes in greater detail the commands to manage the cluster.
The How-To Guides contains how-to examples of less common management topics.
The Changelog & Known Issues contains the full ChangeLog of ClusterWare releases, plus a Known Issues And Workarounds list.
ClusterWare 6/7 vs. Current ClusterWare is a brief guide for ClusterWare 6 and 7 adminstrators showing common ClusterWare 7 commands and current ClusterWare equivalents.
The License Agreements contains specifics about software licenses for Scyld ClusterWare and ClusterWare-distributed 3rd-party packages.
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) contains quick cross-reference pointers into the documentation to answer some common questions.

The documentation is available in two formats: HTML and PDF. You can browse the latest documentation on the Penguin Computing Support Portal at https://www.penguinsolutions.com/computing/support/documentation/, or find the documentation on any server on which the clusterware-docs RPM has been installed. The man pages are distributed in the clusterware-tools RPM.

Find the documentation PDF on a local server at /var/www/html/clusterware-docs.pdf or view the HTML at http://localhost/clusterware-docs. For a remote server cw11headnode, view the HTML at http://cw11headnode/clusterware-docs.