On 2016-06-14, 3:42 AM, "users on behalf of Peter Kjellström" <users-boun...@open-mpi.org on behalf of c...@nsc.liu.se> wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 19:04:59 -0400 >Mehmet Belgin <mehmet.bel...@oit.gatech.edu> wrote: > >> Greetings! >> >> We have not upgraded our OFED stack for a very long time, and still >> running on an ancient version (1.5.4.1, yeah we know). We are now >> considering a big jump from this version to a tested and stable >> recent version and would really appreciate any suggestions from the >> community. > >Some thoughts on the subject. > >* Not installing an external ibstack is quite attractive imo. > RHEL/CentOS stack (not based on any direct OFED version) works fine > for us. It simplifies cluster maintenance (kernel updates etc.). I am curious on how Redhat stack is ³not based on any direct OFED version²? Doesn¹t Redhat just ship an old OFED build, or they do their own changes to it like to the kernel? -- Grigory Shamov Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead University of Manitoba E2-588 EITC Building, (204) 474-9625
