On 5/10/2011 12:46 PM, Will Dennis wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a group here that has acquired an InfiniBand switch (a Voltaire > [now Mellanox] Grid Director 4036E to be specific) and the requisite HCA > cards (Mellanox ConnectX-2 dual-port QSFP) and cables. The problem is, > they don't know how to configure InfiniBand, and have pushed this down > to our IT group, and we don't have any prior knowledge either... We have > taken our shot at configuring the switch, and have installed the HCAs in > the servers (which run Ubuntu 10.04 Server) and then cabled the servers > up to the switch, but no lights are a-blinkin', and the "cable-config > show" command on the switch shows "Not present" as the status for all > ports, even the ones with the cables in them... And then there's the > problem of getting the correct drivers installed in Ubuntu, which > Mellanox does not seem to support. > > Anyone out there interested in a possible consulting gig to get our IB > environment put together and running? If so, pls let me know, and > indicate rate info (respond directly to me, not list of course...) > I cannot do a gig, but it's not that hard. You basically download the OFED drivers from voltaire/Mellanox website, install them on the machines, and you have a working fabric. You can also do IP over IB if you want, which may make the most sense in your circumstances. There isn't a lot of configuration that you need to do. You can give the IB switch an IP address and collect stats from it if you are interested. You don't need to get fancy. These things work pretty well out of the box.
as far as driver support you may have a hard time. They will officially only support RH (and derivatives) and SUSE. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
