[ofa-general] IB introductory material

[Gus Correa]

Hi Ian and list

I second Ian's request, as I am pretty much in the same situation.

For what it is worth, I point out to Ian and other people who may
find this material useful, a few IB basic resources which I list on this
thread to the Torque Users list:

http://www.supercluster.org/pipermail/torqueusers/2009-July/009275.html

Ian's question pops up every so often on many list that deal
with clusters, MPI, etc.
A lot of people out there need basic guidance on IB.
So far I have not found a basic tutorial,
getting started guide, FAQ list, or other instructional material
that would tell a general user or system administrator with no IB 
expertise how to setup, configure, monitor,
and maintain Infiniband networks (IB).
Something like that would be extremely helpful,
and I wonder if OFA is preparing it or has plans to prepare an IB basic 
tutorial or equivalent in the near future.

My $0.02

Gus Correa
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Gustavo Correa
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University
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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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