On 11/12/18 2:40 pm, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
Michael, yes. Panasas engineered IPOIB to Ethernet routers for their storage platform. Remember that until the latest generation of their kit they ran on BSD, which had no Infiniband capability. Panasas IB routers booted from an onboard SATA DOM, which was quite a neat solution.
Sounds like they've changed a bit since we had them at VLSCI (circa 2010), they were just two SuperMicro 2-in-1U boxes, each with a QDR IB and 10gigE and with a relatively vanilla CentOS 5 install and a script to configure them.
Mind you they didn't need to be complicated, they just ran and ran. We lost 1 at one point due to a hardware problem and the solution was to replace the whole unit of 2 nodes. From memory we just needed to take the routes out of the Panasas config and the cluster they were routing for (and put them back when the replacement arrived).
All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
