On 12/16/2011 10:37 AM, Gerben Roest wrote:
> On 16-12-2011 14:10, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 
>>> They should be DDR cards. Does Rate=2 mean DDR?
>>
>> No; it means 1x SDR (lowest speed/width). 4x DDR would be rate 6 (20
>> Gbps). See IBA 1.2.1 vol 1 PathRecord SA attribute Rate component.
>>
>> By default, OpenSM sets the rate for the IPoIB broadcast groups when not
>> explicitly specified is rate 3 (10 Gbps) which is 4x SDR.
> 
> I have a similar twin node that does work correctly (has DDR IB) and it
> says at ibstat: "Rate: 20"
> whereas the two that are having problems say "Rate: 2".
> 
> Testing with openmpi osu_bw show:
> 
> Rate=2:       max bw: 245 MB/s
> Rate=20: max bw: 1970 MB/s

Yes, that's consistent.

Can you temporarily try the cable that is known to work (for rate 20)
between the ports that come up at rate 2 and see if they come up
properly (at rate 20) ?

-- Hal

> 
> greetings,
> 
> Gerben
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