How to ... Find Documentation

The primary source of information about NERSC is our Web site, located at the URL http://www.nersc.gov.

Access to some web pages is restricted to NERSC users. You can access these pages using your NERSC LDAP (NIM) login and password.

Resources on the NERSC web

Most information on the NERSC website is partitioned by compute platform. Start at the main page for the computers you are interested in.

Information on compilers, libraries, applications, operating systems, and all other software can be found under the Software heading.

Descriptions of compute platforms, storage devices, and their capabilities and configurations are available under Systems.

Announcements and up-to-date information about system status are posted in the Status area.

Our online tutorials contain lots of information, documentation, tricks, tips and "how-to"s.

Online IBM Vendor Documentation

IBM's online documentation is not well presented for the High Performance Computing community. NERSC has collected some relevant IBM documentation for the benefit of our user community.

Online man pages

Each computer has a set of man pages that document every command. To read about command, type

%  man command

man even has its own man page, type

%  man man