[ofw] question from customer

[Smith, Stan]

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From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Fab Tillier
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:55 PM
To: Livingston, James; Gilad Shainer
Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: [ofw] question from customer

Hi James,

Just because you can't run the HPC Pack on ServerCore doesn't mean that you can't run IB.  You don't have to have the HPC Pack installed to install and use IB - you just won't be running MPI jobs.  But IB storage and networking should be functional.

Most interesting - what is missing in servercore such that MS MPI does not run?
Seems like a lightweight Windows flavor OS would be just what the MPI guys want on a compute node?

Stan.

-Fab

From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Livingston, James
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:34 AM
To: Gilad Shainer
Cc: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: [ofw] question from customer

Ah, now I remember: ServerCore is not supported as a compute node of a HPC Server 2008 cluster, hence IB is not supported as a communication fabric between ServerCore nodes. This results from the absence in ServerCore of capabilities needed by HPC Server 2008 in compute nodes.

Cheers,
jwl

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From: Gilad Shainer [mailto:Shainer at Mellanox.com]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 12:45 PM
To: Livingston, James
Cc: Anatoly Greenblatt; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: [ofw] question from customer
Server 2008 is supported, but there were no test done on SeverCore. Would you like to give it a try and report issues if occur?

Gilad.


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From: Livingston, James [mailto:James.Livingston at necam.com]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:04 AM
To: Gilad Shainer
Cc: Anatoly Greenblatt; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: [ofw] question from customer
Gilad,

ServerCore is a version of Server 2008 that leaves out all but the most crucial of the O/S features. In particular, its user interface is command-line only. It is intended for servers that perform a specific function like DHCP serving, firewalling, and the like. It's distinguished by its small resource footprint.

Cheers,
jwl

James Livingston
NEC Corporation of America
Redmond Technology Center
Engineering and Test Group
14335 N.E. 24th Street, Suite 104
Bellevue, WA 98007
Telephone: 425-3734415
FAX: 425-643-3154

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From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Gilad Shainer
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 6:33 AM
To: Anatoly Greenblatt; ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: RE: [ofw] question from customer
No on Hyper-V, not sure what is severcore

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From: ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:ofw-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Anatoly Greenblatt
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 5:32 AM
To: ofw at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: [ofw] question from customer
Hi,

Could anyone help me with answer to this question?

"Does WinOF supports Hyper-V and ServerCore?"

Thanks,
Anatoly.

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