Wednesday, February 05, 2014

How to setup InfiniBand network ?


1) InfiniBand Switch

1 x Mellanox InfiniScale IV IS5022 8 ports QDR
  • InfiniBand Short depth Switch
  • MIS5022Q-1BFR
  • 8-Port QSFP 40 Gb/s
  • Hardware revision: A6

2) InfiniBand Cards

2 x Mellanox Connect-IB FDR InfiniBand Card
  • MCB193A-FCAT
  • Single QSFP+ Port 56 Gb/s
  • PCI 3.0 x16
  • Hardware revision: A4

3) OS Linux

2 x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5

4) Setup InfiniBand network

# chkconfig opensmd on
# service opensmd start


5) Check InfiniBand card

# ibstatus


6) Check InfiniBand network

# ibnetdiscover


7) Ping InfiniBand address (lid or guid)

# ibping -S
# ibping 2


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