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Cray Shasta River System Hardware, Rev. 20.31

HQ6X5AAE

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Table of Contents

    Course ID

    HQ6X5AAE

    Duration

    2 hours

    Format

    eLearning

    Overview

    This course describes, at a high level, the Cray Shasta River System hardware, touching on the cabinet, node types, switch types and xnames. This course is essential prerequisite training for students intending to take Cray Shasta EX Series Administration instructor-led training.

    Course ID

    HQ6X5AAE

    Duration

    2 hours

    Format

    eLearning

    Audience

    Customer system administrators and support personnel who intend to implement HPE Cray EX solutions in their data center.

    Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Describe, at a high level, the purpose, infrastructure, and layout of the Shasta air-cooled cabinet
    • Describe the various types of nodes used in the Shasta air-cooled cabinet
    • Describe the networks, switches, topoligies and external network connections used in the Shasta air-cooled cabinet
    • Locate and identify any Shasta air-cooled hardware component based on a given name

    Course outline

    Module 1: Hardware Overview

    • What is the Cray supercomputer rack system
    • Cray supercomputer rack system cabinet contents
    • Cray supercomputer rack system cabinet overview
    • Management of the Cray supercomputer rack system cabinet
    • Cray supercomputer rack system cabinet power

    Module 2: Cray Supercomputer Rack System Nodes

    • Why supercomputer rack nodes
    • Types of supercomputer rack nodes
    • Non compute nodes (NCN)
    • Supercomputer rack compute nodes
    • Supercomputer rack node motherboards
    • Supercomputer rack node processors
    • Supercomputer rack node memory (DIMMs)
    • Supercomputer rack node IO cards
    • Supercomputer rack node local disks

    Module 3: Cray Supercomputer Rack System Switches

    • Types of supercomputer rack cabinet switches
    • Rosetta switch ASIC
    • Columbia Slingshot switch
    • Slingshot breakout cables
    • Supercomputer rack Slingshot topology classes
    • Supercomputer rack Slingshot Dragonfly examples—Class 2
    • SMNet supercomputer rack topology
    • SMNet spine switches
    • SMNet leaf switches
    • SMNet switch management

    Module 4: Xname for Cray Supercomputer Rack System Components

    • Introduction to HPE Cray EX supercomputer xnames
    • Xnames for Cray supercomputer rack system components

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