Good to know, I guess I lucked out :-) FWIW, I have MCX353A-FCBT(The single port FDR,
COnnectx-3 VPI), and it seems to
work fine.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Taylor [mailto:taylor@hpc.ufl.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:11 AM
To: Suresh Shelvapille
Cc: hpdd-discuss(a)ml01.01.org
Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] Mellanox OFED MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.3-3 for Lustrenot working
Unfortunately, that is not true for *all* Mellanox cards at the moment. Hopefully, it
will be the
case soon but it is not now.
Regards,
Charlie
On May 7, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Suresh Shelvapille wrote:
> You don't need to use Mellanox-OFED to get FDR cards working. I have centos 6.3
and OFED 3.5-rc2
installed on my
> machine. Both Lustre and OFED work fine at 56Gbps!
>
> Basically, I loaded Centos 6.3, installed Lustre kernel-packages on top (as
described) and then
installed OFED package
> 3.5.rc2 (that I download from
OpenFabrics.org).
>
> Unless you need certain debug utilities that Mellanox OFED provides (and if you
don't want to
install NfsORDMA) then
> there is no reason to use Mellanox OFED. OpenFabrics OFED is fine!
>
> Hope this helps.
> Suri
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: hpdd-discuss-bounces(a)ml01.01.org [mailto:hpdd-discuss-bounces@ml01.01.org]
On Behalf Of
Charles
>> Taylor
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 9:30 AM
>> To: Brian J. Murrell
>> Cc: hpdd-discuss(a)ml01.01.org
>> Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] Mellanox OFED MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.3-3 for Lustrenot
working
>>
>> Touche! We are being forced to use the Mellanox/OFED stack now to support our
new FDR IB cards
and
>> it *is* painful. We have a meeting with Mellanox today to give them "what
for" (as the Geico
Gecko
>> puts it). They seem little concerned with the needs of their customers in this
regard.
>> Nonetheless, we will push.
>>
>> Of course, a little pressure from a competitor such as Intel, could not hurt
either. ;)
>>
>> Charles A. Taylor
>> UF HPC Center
>>
>> On May 7, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 16:57 +0530, linux freaker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can try it once more but really I feel its painful.
>>>
>>> It is, which is why we encourage people to use the I/B stack provided by
>>> RedHat, already built into their kernel and the corresponding user-space
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> It seems that a lot of people (think they) need to install the Mellanox
>>> I/B stack instead. Perhaps this is true for your (and everyone else's)
>>> case, or perhaps not. I can't really tell, and am not really involved
>>> closely enough in I/B to know.
>>>
>>> But ultimately, I wonder why, given all of the apparent need for
>>> whatever Mellanox does differently than the upstream OFED and/or RH I/B
>>> stacks are doing, that these needs for the Mellanox stack are not being
>>> pushed back into either OFED or the upstream kernel I/B stack. Life
>>> really would be so much easier for so many people if it were.
>>>
>>> Maybe if Mellanox hears from enough of their customers about the pain it
>>> is to use their hardware they might try to get their stuff upstream.
>>>
>>> b.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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