[ofa-general] IB introductory material

[Steven Dake]

A teammate of mine recently setup an IB cluster for a project we are
working on and used the following as a good resource for very basic "how
to get going" type instructions.

http://people.redhat.com/dledford/

Regards
-steve

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:04 -0400, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
> 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
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