User Manual

InstallationRev 2.1-1.0.6

Mellanox Technologies

Step 4. Reboot the machine if the installation script performed firmware updates to your network

adapter hardware. Otherwise, restart the driver by running:

"/etc/init.d/openibd

restart"

Note: The script adds the following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf for the userspace

components such as MPI:

* soft memlock unlimited

* hard memlock unlimited

These settings set the amount of memory that can be pinned by a user space application to

unlimited. If desired, tune the value unlimited to a specific amount of RAM.

Note: For your machine to be part of the InfiniBand/VPI fabric, a Subnet Manager must be run-

ning on one of the fabric nodes. At this point, Mellanox OFED for Linux has already

installed the OpenSM Subnet Manager on your machine. For details on starting OpenSM,

see Chapter 8, “OpenSM – Subnet Manager”.

Step 5. (InfiniBand only) Run the hca_self_test.ofed utility to verify whether or not the

InfiniBand link is up. The utility also checks for and displays additional information such as

• HCA firmware version

• Kernel architecture

• Driver version

• Number of active HCA ports along with their states

• Node GUID

In case your machine has an unsupported network adapter device, no firmware update

will occur and the error message below will be printed. Please contact your hardware

vendor for help on firmware updates.

Error message:

Device #1:

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Device: 0000:05:00.0

Part Number:

Description:

PSID: MT_0DB0110010

Versions: Current Available

FW 2.9.1000 N/A

Status: No matching image found