[ofa-general] Running OpenSM on large clusters

[Chris Elmquist]

On Wednesday (10/17/2007 at 11:38AM -0700), Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:35:38 -0700
> Edward Mascarenhas <eddiem at sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Has anyone seen issues with running OpenSM on large (1500+ nodes) 
> > clusters?
> > 
[...]

> 
> We have atlas running with 1152 nodes.  OpenSM is able to route it with up/down
> routing in ~2min.
> 
> We don't see messages like you state above.  But we have been using the OpenSM
> from OFED 1.2.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Ira

Ira,

Thank you for the information.  Can you describe the configuration of
the machine on which you run that OpenSM?  How much horsepower and the
type of HCA used?

I suspect that the machine on which we run OpenSM may be underpowered for
what we are asking of it...

Chris

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