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Infiniband HOWTO
Guy Coates
This document describes how to install and configure the OFED infiniband software on Debian.
1.
Introduction
1.1
The latest version
1.2
What is OFED?
2.
Installing the OFED Software
2.1
Installing prebuilt packages
2.2
Building packages from source
3.
Install the kernel modules
3.1
Building new kernel modules
4.
Setting up a basic infiniband network
4.1
Upgrade your Infiniband card and switch firmware
4.2
Physically Connect the network
4.3
Choose a Subnet Manager
4.4
Load the kernel modules
4.5
(optional) Start opensm
4.6
Check network health
4.7
Check the extended network connectivity
4.8
testing connectivity with ibping
4.9
Testing RDMA performance
5.
IP over Infiniband (IPoIB)
5.1
List the network devices
5.2
IP Configuration
5.3
Connected vs Unconnected Mode
5.4
TCP tuning
5.5
ARP and dual ported cards
6.
OpenMPI
6.1
Configure IPoIB
6.2
Load the modules
6.3
Check permissions and limits
6.4
Install the mpi test programs
6.5
Configure Host Access
6.6
Run the MPI PingPong benchmark
7.
SDP
7.1
Configuration
7.2
Example Using SDP with Netpipe
8.
SRP
8.1
Configuration
8.2
SRP daemon configuration
8.3
Multipathing, LVM and formatting
9.
Building Lustre against OFED
9.1
Check Compatibility
9.2
Build a lustre patched kernel
9.3
Build OFED modules for the lustre patched kernel
9.4
Configure lustre
10.
Troubleshooting
10.1
Genernal fabric troubleshooting
10.2
ib_query_gid() failed errors on mlx4 platforms
10.3
Missing XRC support
11.
Tips and Tricks
11.1
Descriptive node names
12.
Further Information
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