From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 24 21:28:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3C525E7 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from btw.pki2.com (btw.pki2.com [IPv6:2001:470:a:6fd::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5980A11B3 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by btw.pki2.com (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id rBOLRo7N059362; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:27:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@pki2.com) Subject: Re: InfiniBand in 10.0? From: Dennis Glatting To: iamatt In-Reply-To: References: <1387915155.71651.118.camel@btw.pki2.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:27:50 -0800 Message-ID: <1387920470.71651.121.camel@btw.pki2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Dennis Glatting X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: rBOLRo7N059362 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd@pki2.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:28:00 -0000 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" 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"