Mellanox infiniband support

[Jason bacon]

I recently heard directly from a developer at Mellanox that ConnectX 2 
and 3 are the currently supported IB interfaces.

Older ConnectX and Infinihost cards also work, but I'm under the 
impression that development and testing for them has ceased.  Someone 
please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

I scripted the process of building IB support into FreeBSD.  The scripts 
are available here:

http://acadix.biz/infiniband.php

I'd be interested in hearing about your performance results.

We're looking at using FreeNAS with IB for our NFS servers in an HPC 
cluster.

Good luck,

     Jason

On 11/18/13 4:03 PM, chintu hetam wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
>
> I am implementing an interface server application with purpose to capture
> and store data @ 50+Gbps. Ours is platform product that has 5 10Gbps
> processing nodes and one management node. i did look for various solutions
> and its supported software for FreeBSD.
>
>
> Relevant information on following things will be very handful..
>
> Is Mellanox Connect-X series supported fully and mature enough for FreeBSD
> to create a product?
>
> In particular,i am planning to use ASUS mother board with Mellanox
> Connect-X3 on board. i dint find any FreeBSD driver supported for any of
> the Connect – X 3(EN/IB) silicons.
>
>
>
> Is it possible to daisy chain single port on-board Connect –X3 (EN/IB) with
> QSFP connector? In case of no is there any alternative?i know one way to do
> is, management node have Mellanox switches (6 ports) and connect each
> processing node in star topology.
>
>
> Are you planning driver release for FreeBSD in near future. i am looking
> for release which can be used to release the platform product?
>
>
> any information on few performance figures and release date plans will be
> great.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>   Chintu
>
>   Sr OS Engineer,NJ
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