HI Brian, I have installed IB on OSCAR clusters before with a few different software packages (OFED, as Michael refers to here, and using vendor provided src and binary packages). Basically, the easiest thing I found to do was, should you need to build anything from source (either from a source tarball or src rpm), build binary RPMs, and include them in your rpm list that gets installed in the client image, or just chroot into the client image and install them after the basic configuration of the image. Just make sure you upgrade your MPI implementation as well (if you're using MPI) to use the IB fabric (OFED will offer to build a few different MPI implementations, and you can build them for various compilers -- I have both gcc and Intel MPIs on my system, so users can use either compiler). The process is the same as the drivers I mentioned above. --Joe
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Michael Edwards Sent: Thu 12/6/2007 8:01 AM To: oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] infiniband Infiniband support is not packaged as an OSCAR module, and as it includes some kernel modules this would be somewhat problematic to do in a platform independent way. At least thats what I was told the last time I brought it up. There is a fairly easy to use package called the "open fabrics enterprise distribution" which is made by a consortium of a number of major infiniband vendors (http://www.openfabrics.org/). It has some fairly easy to follow instructions for installing it on a cluster. Give these tips a try. I cobbled them together from some notes I made about six months ago when I was installing OFED on an existing OSCAR cluster. http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/TipOFED On Dec 6, 2007 4:42 AM, bturner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I am upgrading my oscar cluster from G/bit ethernet to > infiniband does oscar support this upgrade. > > > best regards > brian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
