[ofa-general] opensm, OFED 1.3/1.4

[Hal Rosenstock]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Michael Oevermann
<michael.oevermann at tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to set up a cluster (with OSCAR) with infiniband using
> CentOS/RHEL 5.2. Only the compute nodes have
> IB NICS, the head node doesn't. At this point I want to use the packages of
> the CentOS repositories which
> are - as far as I know - based on OFED 1.3 to avoid package conflicts and
> dependency problems I run
> into if I compile OFED 1.4 from source. I have two questions:
>
> 1) can I still use the OFED 1.4 source to compile the most recent MPI
> versions (e.g. MVAPICH2, which is not in the
> CentOS repository). Or is it just a bad idea to mix versions here?
>
> 2) As far as I understand, I need the opensm subnet manager. Can I run this
> manager on the head node (which has
> no IB NIC)

An IB NIC (HCA) is needed to run OpenSM or any host based SM.

-- Hal

> or do I need to run it on one of the nodes. I would prefer to run
> it on the head node in order to
> keep all nodes exactly identical.
>
> Best regards and thanks for info
>
> Michael
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