Table 1–1 was expanded to identify HP CP300BL BladeSystems.
Information on the HP Message Passing Interface (HP-MPI), including a section on using the Intel Trace Collector and Analyzer on HP XC systems, has been added.
A new chapter, Monitoring Node Activity, appears in this edition.
The chapter on using LSF-HPC was reorganized for ease of use.
A new section on MPICH, the portable implementation of the message passing interface, has been added.