Hello Lachlan.  I think Jeff Squyres will be along in a short while! HE is
of course the expert on Cisco.

In the meantime a quick Google turns up:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/usnic/c/deployment/2_0_X/b_Cisco_usNIC_Deployment_Guide_For_Standalone_C-SeriesServers.html

On 2 September 2016 at 06:54, Gilles Gouaillardet <gil...@rist.or.jp> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> FCoE is for storage, Ethernet is for the network.
>
> I assume you can ssh into your nodes, which means you have a TCP/IP, and
> it is up and running.
>
> i do not know the details of Cisco hardware, but you might be able to use
> usnic (native btl or via libfabric) instead of the plain TCP/IP network.
>
>
> at first, you can build Open MPI, and run a job on two nodes with one task
> per node.
>
> in your script, you can
>
> mpirun --mca btl_base_verbose 100 --mca pml_base_verbose 100 ...
>
> this will tell you which network is used.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Gilles
> On 9/2/2016 11:06 AM, Lachlan Musicman 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
>
>
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>
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