This IBM® Redbooks® publication is one in a series of books that are written specifically for the IBM System Blue Gene® supercomputer, Blue Gene/P™, which is the second generation of massively parallel supercomputer from IBM in the Blue Gene series. It provides an overview of the system administration environment for Blue Gene/P. It is intended to help administrators understand the tools that are available to maintain this system.

This book explains briefly the evolution of the system, from Blue Gene/L to the new Blue Gene/P. It details Blue Gene Navigator, which has grown to be a full featured Web-based system administration tool on Blue Gene/P. The book also describes many of the day-to-day administrative functions, such as running Diagnostics, performing Service Actions, and monitoring hardware. There are also sections to cover BGPMaster and the processes that it monitors. The final chapters of the book cover the tools that are shipped with the system and details about configuring communications with the I/O nodes and Power Management™ features.

Chapter 1. The evolution of Blue Gene

Chapter 2. Blue Gene Navigator

Chapter 3. BGPMaster

Chapter 4. Blocks

Chapter 5. Midplane Management Control System

Chapter 6. High Throughput Computing

Chapter 7. RAS Messages

Chapter 8. Event Log Analysis

Chapter 9. Diagnostics

Chapter 10. Service Actions

Chapter 11. Blue Gene/P tools

Chapter 12. Configuring I/O nodes

Chapter 13. Power management

Appendix A. Statement of completion

Appendix B. Blue Gene/P hardware naming convention

Appendix C. Service connection

Appendix D. High Availability service node

Appendix E. Setting up the cross-compile environment

Appendix F. Setting up the Event Log Analysis Environment