I recently tried ompi on early ConnectX hardware/software. The good news, it works =)
However, ompi needs a chunk of options set to recognize the card so I made a small patch (setting it up like old Arbel style hardware). Patch against openmpi-1.3a1r14635 /Peter --- --- ompi/mca/btl/openib/mca-btl-openib-hca-params.ini.old 2007-05-10 13:47:58.000000000 +0200 +++ ompi/mca/btl/openib/mca-btl-openib-hca-params.ini 2007-05-10 13:55:21.000000000 +0200 @@ -100,6 +100,14 @@ ############################################################################ +[Mellanox ConnectX] +vendor_id = 0x2c9 +vendor_part_id = 25408 +use_eager_rdma = 1 +mtu = 2048 + +############################################################################ + [IBM eHCA 4x and 12x ] vendor_id = 0x5076 vendor_part_id = 0
