Q-Logic IB0056101-00 G.02, OFED manual Feature Overview, Features

2 Feature 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.

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