Hi Ian and list
I second Ian's request, as I am pretty much in the same situation.
For what it is worth, I point out to Ian and other people who may
find this material useful, a few IB basic resources which I list on this
thread to the Torque Users list:
http://www.supercluster.org/pipermail/torqueusers/2009-July/009275.html
Ian's question pops up every so often on many list that deal
with clusters, MPI, etc.
A lot of people out there need basic guidance on IB.
So far I have not found a basic tutorial,
getting started guide, FAQ list, or other instructional material
that would tell a general user or system administrator with no IB
expertise how to setup, configure, monitor,
and maintain Infiniband networks (IB).
Something like that would be extremely helpful,
and I wonder if OFA is preparing it or has plans to prepare an IB basic
tutorial or equivalent in the near future.
My $0.02
Gus Correa
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Gustavo Correa
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University
Palisades, NY, 10964-8000 - USA
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Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
Hello,
We have recently purchased a small infiniband-enabled cluster and
switch. I had hoped that the ofa-general list might be somewhere
suitable to find guidance on configuring an IB-based MPI cluster using
(otherwise) commodity hardware, however 48 hours of posts suggests this
is a list for pretty serious IB developers.
Before I un-subscribe, could someone kindly point me towards some kind
of basic introduction to getting an IB system up and running? I don't
need background. I have real hardware plugged in, some drivers
installed (but possibly not the right ones), and am now working on
compiling OpenMPI and MVAPICH2 with IB support to allow me to then
compile other MPI applications to use the IB interconnect. Guidance on
how to do this properly, and possibly some sanity checks or benchmarks
would be very nice.
Regards,
Ian
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