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Expand node naming documentation.

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communications are specified as well as various timer values.</p>
<p>A description of the nodes and their grouping into partitions is required.
Node names can have up to three name specifications:
A simple node range expression may optionally be used to specify
ranges of nodes to avoid building a configuration file with large
numbers of entries. The node range expression can contain one
pair of square brackets with a sequence of comma separated
numbers and/or ranges of numbers separated by a &quot;-&quot;
(e.g. &quot;linux[0-64,128]&quot;, or &quot;lx[15,18,32-33]&quot;).
On BlueGene systems only, the square brackets should contain
pairs of three digit numbers separated by a &quot;x&quot;.
These numbers indicate the boundaries of a rectangular prism
(e.g. &quot;bgl[000x144,400x544]&quot;).
See our <a href="bluegene.html">Blue Gene User and Administrator Guide</a>
for more details.
Presently the numeric range must be the last characters in the
node name (e.g. &quot;unit[0-31]rack1&quot; is invalid).</p>
<p>Node names can have up to three name specifications:
<b>NodeName</b> is the name used by all SLURM tools when referring to the node,
<b>NodeAddr</b> is the name or IP address SLURM uses to communicate with the node, and
<b>NodeHostname</b> is the name returned by the command <i>/bin/hostname -s</i>.
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......@@ -568,7 +568,12 @@ ranges of nodes to avoid building a configuration file with large
numbers of entries. The node range expression can contain one
pair of square brackets with a sequence of comma separated
numbers and/or ranges of numbers separated by a "-"
(e.g. "linux[0-64,128]", or "lx[15,18,32-33]").
(e.g. "linux[0-64,128]", or "lx[15,18,32-33]").
On BlueGene systems only, the square brackets should contain
pairs of three digit numbers separated by a "x".
These numbers indicate the boundaries of a rectangular prism
(e.g. "bgl[000x144,400x544]").
See BlueGene documentation for more details.
Presently the numeric range must be the last characters in the
node name (e.g. "unit[0-31]rack1" is invalid).
The node configuration specified the following information:
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