Hi,
OFED 3.5-rc6 is available.
The tarball is available on:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-3.5/OFED-3.5-rc6.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 3.5
OFED-3.5-rc6 Main Changes from OFED 3.5-rc5
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IB/rds: correct IB api usage
perftest-2.0-0.27.g2edd80a
Regards,
Vladimir
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
Version 3.5-rc6
Release Notes
January 2013
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Table of Contents
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1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 3.5 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Change log
3. Known Issues
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1. Overview
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These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
release 3.5. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand
subnet or iWARP network.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade
all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 3.5 Contents
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The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, qib, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, cxgb4, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SRP Initiator and target, iSER
Initiator and target, RDS, uDAPL, qlgc_vnic and NFS-RDMA*.
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- Extra packages:
- infinipath-psm: Performance-Scaled Messaging API, an accelerated
interface to Intel(R) HCAs
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules'
LICENSE files)
- Documentation
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
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o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL6.2 2.6.32-220.el6
- RedHat EL6.3 2.6.32-279.el6
- SLES11 SP23.0.13-0.27-default
- kernel.org3.5*
* Minimal QA for these versions.
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Intel and IBM as
well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications and Intel.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR, DDR and QDR Modes are Supported):
- ConnectX(R) and ConnectX EN (fw-25408 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1000)
- ConnectX-2 EN (fw-ConnectX2 Rev 2.9.1200)
- ConnectX-3 (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0700) (FDR and FDR10 Modes are
Supported)
- ConnectX-3 EN (fw-ConnectX3 Rev 2.10.0800)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=firmware_download
o Intel (formerly QLogic) HCAs:
- Intel(R) True Scale DDR PCIe x8 and x16 HCAs
- Intel(R) True Scale QDR PCIe x8 Gen2 HCAs
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o Intel RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
1.4 Switches Supported
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This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following
companies:
- Intel (formerly QLogic)
- Flextronics
- Oracle (Sun)
- Mellanox
1.5 Third Party Packages
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 3.5:
- MVAPICH2 - 1.8
- Intel MPI - 4.0.3/4.1
- Open MPI - 1.6/1.6.1/1.6.3
1.6 OFED Sources
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Linux:
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URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/linux-3.5.git
Branch: for-ofed-3.5
- Linux kernel subtree that includes files relevant for the OFED project only.
Based on v3.5. Used to shorten git clone time.
Note: the regular Linux git tree can be used as well.
compat:
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URL: git://git.openfabrics.org/compat-rdma/compat.git
Branch: ofed
- Based on compat project (https://github.com/mcgrof/compat). The compat m
