InfiniBand in 10.0?

[Dennis Glatting]

On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 15:46 -0600, iamatt wrote:
> A good batch of mellanox cables.  Melanic had a bad run of FDR early
> in the year.  Most FDR centers have been plagued with them.  Even the
> back end of our DDN lustres has had issues.  They typically do not
> just fail but downgrade to QDR rate.
> 

Ah. I though they were stripping the technology InfinBand.



> On Dec 24, 2013 3:24 PM, "Dennis Glatting" <freebsd at pki2.com> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 14:43 -0600, iamatt wrote:
>         > Not sure if I would even bother with running IB on BSD.  We
>         have enough
>         > problems just getting things stable with Linux and mellanox
>         ofed .  Add all
>         > of the documented build problems with the mellanox FDR
>         cables and recalls
>         > and you are guaranteed a nightmare.  TACC, navy, and almost
>         every center I
>         > am aware of has replaced all or most or some of their FDR,
>         including us.
>         >
>         
>         Replaced them with what?
>         
>         
>         > As far as cards go it's all mellanox.  Qlogic lost the game,
>         still dealing
>         > with a 12800  qlogic switch which is a total nightmare.
>          Stick with
>         > mellanox.  Different vendors used to make their own fabric
>         managers in the
>         > early time of IB but now its best to stick with open ibd.
>         >
>         > FreeBSD and IB gives me the chills just thinking about it.
>         > On Dec 24, 2013 1:59 PM, "Dennis Glatting"
>         <freebsd at pki2.com> wrote:
>         >
>         > >
>         > > This site appears dated:
>         > >
>         > >         https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand
>         > >
>         > > I have a couple of questions.
>         > >
>         > > 1) Under 10.0-RC2, is InfiniBand a part of GENERIC or did
>         I still have
>         > > to modify the conf as specified in the wiki? I don't see
>         any of the
>         > > options from the wiki in 10.0-RC2 GENERIC.
>         > >
>         > > 2) Any recommendation on cards? What works, what doesn't?
>         > >
>         > > 3) What things to watch out for?
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > Thanks.
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
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