Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:27:50 -0800 From: Dennis Glatting <freebsd@pki2.com> To: iamatt <iamatt@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: InfiniBand in 10.0? Message-ID: <1387920470.71651.121.camel@btw.pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEeRwNXsxT_pbqOOF3tfHSecjFzRqqb6tgxZVc5nwMWqoyBOxw@mail.gmail.com> References: <1387915155.71651.118.camel@btw.pki2.com> <CAEeRwNXsxT_pbqOOF3tfHSecjFzRqqb6tgxZVc5nwMWqoyBOxw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 14:43 -0600, iamatt wrote: > Not sure if I would even bother with running IB on BSD. We have enough > problems just getting things stable with Linux and mellanox ofed . Add all > of the documented build problems with the mellanox FDR cables and recalls > and you are guaranteed a nightmare. TACC, navy, and almost every center I > am aware of has replaced all or most or some of their FDR, including us. > > As far as cards go it's all mellanox. Qlogic lost the game, still dealing > with a 12800 qlogic switch which is a total nightmare. Stick with > mellanox. Different vendors used to make their own fabric managers in the > early time of IB but now its best to stick with open ibd. > > FreeBSD and IB gives me the chills just thinking about it. > On Dec 24, 2013 1:59 PM, "Dennis Glatting" <freebsd@pki2.com> wrote: > I forgot to mention that my interest is running oclHashcat with VCL although VCL is being deprecated. oclHashcat is still recommending InfiniBand. If I might deploy whatever infrastructure to make oclHashcat happy I would also want to plug FreeBSD into it too. > > > > This site appears dated: > > > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand > > > > I have a couple of questions. > > > > 1) Under 10.0-RC2, is InfiniBand a part of GENERIC or did I still have > > to modify the conf as specified in the wiki? I don't see any of the > > options from the wiki in 10.0-RC2 GENERIC. > > > > 2) Any recommendation on cards? What works, what doesn't? > > > > 3) What things to watch out for? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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