Establish goals of network performance and tuning.

 Document the SP system.

 Document all user and SP networks.

 Identify node and application characteristics.

 Analyze node statistics.

 Review AIX and SP specific performance monitoring commands.

 Implement Performance Toolbox Parallel Extension (PTPE) software.

 Perform preliminary network performance tuning and sizing.

 Implement SP Switch specific tunables.

 Perform NFS performance tuning.

 Evaluate common SP network performance problems.

 Revisit application-specific tuning parameters.

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