Lachlan mentioned that he has "M Series" hardware, which, to the best of my knowledge, does not officially support usNIC. It may not be possible to even configure the relevant usNIC adapter policy in UCSM for M Series modules/chassis.
Using the TCP BTL may be the only realistic option here. -Dave > On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:35 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> > wrote: > > Greetings Lachlan. > > Yes, Gilles and John are correct: on Cisco hardware, our usNIC transport is > the lowest latency / best HPC-performance transport. I'm not aware of any > MPI implementation (including Open MPI) that has support for FC types of > transports (including FCoE). > > I'll ping you off-list with some usNIC details. > > >> On Sep 1, 2016, at 10:06 PM, Lachlan Musicman <data...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hola, >> >> I'm new to MPI and OpenMPI. Relatively new to HPC as well. >> >> I've just installed a SLURM cluster and added OpenMPI for the users to take >> advantage of. >> >> I'm just discovering that I have missed a vital part - the networking. >> >> I'm looking over the networking options and from what I can tell we only >> have (at the moment) Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). >> >> Is this a network technology that's supported by OpenMPI? >> >> (system is running Centos 7, on Cisco M Series hardware) >> >> Please excuse me if I have terms wrong or am missing knowledge. Am new to >> this. >> >> cheers >> Lachlan >> >> >> ------ >> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this >> way." >> >> - Grace Hopper >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> users@lists.open-mpi.org >> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@lists.open-mpi.org > https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.open-mpi.org https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users
