[ofa-general] IB introductory material

[Ian Stokes-Rees]

Hello,

We have recently purchased a small infiniband-enabled cluster and 
switch.  I had hoped that the ofa-general list might be somewhere 
suitable to find guidance on configuring an IB-based MPI cluster using 
(otherwise) commodity hardware, however 48 hours of posts suggests this 
is a list for pretty serious IB developers.

Before I un-subscribe, could someone kindly point me towards some kind 
of basic introduction to getting an IB system up and running?  I don't 
need background.  I have real hardware plugged in, some drivers 
installed (but possibly not the right ones), and am now working on 
compiling OpenMPI and MVAPICH2 with IB support to allow me to then 
compile other MPI applications to use the IB interconnect.  Guidance on 
how to do this properly, and possibly some sanity checks or benchmarks 
would be very nice.

Regards,

Ian