On Apr 24, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Dave Love <d.l...@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
> "Elken, Tom" <tom.el...@intel.com> writes: > >>> I have seen it recommended to use psm instead of openib for QLogic cards. >> [Tom] >> Yes. PSM will perform better and be more stable when running OpenMPI >> than using verbs. > > But unfortunately you won't be able to checkpoint. True - yet remember that OMPI no longer supports checkpoint/restart after the 1.6 series. Pending a new supporter coming along > >> Intel has acquired the InfiniBand assets of QLogic >> about a year ago. These SDR HCAs are no longer supported, but should >> still work. > > Do you mean they should work with the latest infinipath libraries > (despite what it said or implied in the notes for last version I got > from QLogic?) or possibly what's in RHEL? I thought I'd actually tried > and failed with later stuff, but may just have gone by the release notes. > >> You can get the driver (ib_qib) and PSM library from OFED 1.5.4.1 or >> the current release OFED 3.5. > > I wonder if there's a version of the driver that's known to work in a > current RHEL5 system with QLE7140. We get frequent qib-related kernel > panics from a vanilla RHEL5.9 kernel -- after running OK under test for > a few weeks, and nothing relevant appearing to have changed to cause > it... (There's a trace on the redhat bugzilla with qib in the issue > title, for what it's worth.) I'm currently reverting to old stuff. > > It's good if Infinipath-land is taking an interest in OMPI again, and > that the libraries are now under a free licence. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
