Intuitive to some, not to others. If you want to ping across an Infiniband network, like we use ping to test other networks, you could use ibping. Pick a system to be the destination of the ping and then go find out it’s Port GUID and start a ibping server on it: Set one system […]
I’m building a cluster of 25 machines at work. Trying to get the Infiniband stuff to work on them – a dev found an annomoly in his benchmarking numbers and asked me to verify his work and look for trouble and so – I did. While I was doing it, I found some other users […]
Just built a cluster of 25 Dell systems for our developers. These are Dell 1435SC systems, each with a pair of Dell 1435SC and 8 GB RAM. We installed openSUSE 10.3 on them all, added the Ganglia gmond and also the OpenIB infiniband successor OFED. Handed them off to our developers to certify and they […]
If you haven’t see Spock.com yet, go have a look. Pretty interesting.