[ofw] RE: OpenSM 3.3.3 available for interested parties.

[Fab Tillier]

Hi Stan

Smith, Stan wrote on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 at 14:36:13

> Fab Tillier wrote:
>> Hi Stan
>> 
>> Smith, Stan wrote on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 at 09:22:59
>> 
>>> On a slightly different vector, would you be willing to test drive
>>> the new opensm on your large in-house cluster?
>> 
>> Is there a driver package that we can use for this?  Does that
>> package allow extracting the drivers without installing them, so that
>> they can be added to the OS image prior to deployment?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Fab
> 
> No driver package required, opensm is a user-mode executable only, sans
> required ibal & complib.dlls.
> Opensm.exe can run anywhere on the fabric, head-node is a good place;
> point being no need to deploy to compute nodes.

Opensm 3.3.3 depends on winverbs/winmad and the libibmad stuff.  Thus, there's a dependency on the drivers - I can't just take the executable and run it on a driver install that doesn't include winverbs/winmad.

> Options:
> 
> If you really want the full-meal deal, I can build you a WinOF
> installer which you could then do an administrative install which
> writes files to your specified folder, no device installation. All
> signed drivers & .cat files are available in specified folder which
> contains Pfiles\winOF\*.
> 
> Build opensm.exe executable from gen1\branches\opensm_3 dropped into an
> svn build tree @ trunk\ulp\opensm_3
> 
> I can send you the appro. opensm.exe.
> 
> I would recommend shutting down the system's current openSM, switch or
> otherwise. From a head node cmd-window say 'opensm.exe -e --console
> local'.

We run OpenSM on a dedicated node.  I plan on turning OpenSM off on that node, and imaging a compute node with the latest drivers + opensm.  A package that contains this would be great.

-Fab