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IB0056101-00 G.02 Preliminary 2-1
2Feature Overview
This section contains the features for this release, the supported QLogic adapter
models, supported distributions and kernels, and a list of the software
components.
Features
The QLogic OFED 1.4 software release contains the complete OFED 1.4, plus
additional QLogic improvements, including an enhanced QLogic HCA driver. The
InfiniPath 2.3 components (libraries, QLogic MPI/PSM, and utilities) are also
included. QLogic also supplies MVAPICH and OpenMPI compiled with newer
versions of each of four different compilers (GCC, PGI, Intel and PathScale).
The following features and enhancements are included in the QLogic OFED 1.4
release:
Installation improvements. Provides a single software load for InfiniBand
HCAs from QLogic and other vendors supported by OFED. the software is
available packaged in the following ways:
Text User Interface (TUI) installer available (with the QLogicIB-Basic*
download). TUI is used for install on smaller clusters. Software can be
installed either standalone or via FastFabric (if the QLogic InfiniBand
Fabric Suite is purchased).
Software packaged for use with rpm install method.
A subset of the software (the accelerated MPI stack, precompiled
versions of MVAPICH and Open MPI, and other user-level tools) can
be installed on top of stock OFED or on an IB-enabled distribution.
Software packaged for Rocks installation method.
Software packaged for Platform OCS installation method
Write-combining (WC) mappings for the PIO buffers is now configured by
default using the x86 Page Attribute Table (PAT) mechanism.