PAR Technologies PARASTATION5 V5 - Manual (Page 6)

About this document
2 ParaStation5 Administrator's Guide
In the middle of 2004, all rights on ParaStation where transferred from ParTec AG to the ParTec Cluster
Competence Center GmbH. This new company takes a much more service-oriented approach to the
customer. The main goal is to deliver integrated and complete software stacks for LINUX-based compute
clusters by selecting state-of-the-art software components and driving software development efforts in
areas where real added value can be provided. The ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH continues
to develop and support the ParaStation product as an important part of it's portfolio.
At the end of 2007, ParaStation5 was released supporting MPI2 and even more interconnects and
especially protocols, like DAPL. ParaStation5 is backward compatible to the previous ParaStation4 version.
1.3. About this document
This manual discusses installation, configuration and administration of ParaStation5. Furthermore, all the
system management utilities are described.
For a detailed discussion of the user utilities and the programming interfaces included in the standard
distribution take a look at the ParaStation5 User's Guide and the API reference, respectively.
This document describes version 5.0 of the ParaStation software. Previous versions of ParaStation are
no longer covered by this document. Information about these outdated versions can be found in previous
versions of this document.