Hi Oleg,

Are you using PaaS or IaaS VM instances?  For PaaS, the Network Direct 
components should come preconfigured when you deploy A8 or A9 VM instances.  
For IaaS, you need to install the HPC VM driver extension.  You shouldn’t 
install the OFED drivers themselves, as you need the user-mode driver 
components to match what the system is running.

For DAPL, you should install the binary redistributable available here: 
http://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/Windows/DAPL-ND/latest/

You will need to make minor changes to the dat.conf file (which I believe gets 
installed under d:\dat\ in the A8 and A9 VM instances).  The default entry in 
dat.conf looks like:

ND0 u2.0 nonthreadsafe default C:\Windows\system32\dapl2-ND.dll ri.2.0 "ND0 1" 
""

The path to the system directory isn’t right for Azure A8 and A9 nodes, so you 
will want to change it to the following:

ND0 u2.0 nonthreadsafe default "%SYSTEMROOT%\\system32\\dapl2-ND.dll" ri.2.0 
"ND0 1" ""

DAPL by default will pick the first IPv4 address, but if you run into trouble 
here you can explicitly specify the netmask of the interface to use.  For Azure 
A8 and A9 nodes, this would look like:

ND0 u2.0 nonthreadsafe default "%SYSTEMROOT%\\system32\\dapl2-ND.dll" ri.2.0 
"ND0_172.16.0.0/16 1" ""

I’ve CC’d the Microsoft MPI team here, who own the RDMA infrastructure 
component in Azure.  Feel free to contact the team using that email address if 
you run into issues.  I’ve also CC’d Stan Smith at Intel, who maintains the 
Windows DAPL redistributable.  Note that the SVN server (if you check out 
sources) had an issue a little bit ago, so building your own package is likely 
to give you issues - best to use the binary package.  If you do find that you 
need to build from sources, please ping Stan for help getting the right source 
bits.

Holler if you run into any issues!
-Fab


From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Oleg Jakushkin
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 5:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ofw] Where is WS2012R2 (Azure HPC with IB) support for WinOF (and 
uDAPL)?

Having windows Azure HPC VM on A8 node with IB I get this error when I try to 
install OFED_win7_x64 (from 
http://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/Windows/latest/src/). I would love 
to use uDAPL (as crossplatform transport supporting IB and getting around 
kernel) on it. Is there any progress on WinOF or at least support for Azure 
WS2012R2?

Is ND-SPI the only option left for users of IB on WS2012R2?

--
Best regards,
Oleg Jakushkin
Department of Computer Modeling and Multi-Processing Systems
Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes
Saint-Petersburg State University

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