User Manual

InstallationRev 2.0-3.0.0
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Step 4. In case the installation script performed firmware updates to your network adapter hardware, it
will ask you to reboot your machine.
Step 5. The script adds the following lines to /etc/security/limits.conf for the userspace com-
ponents such as MPI:
These settings unlimit the amount of memory that can be pinned by a user space application.
If desired, tune the value unlimited to a specific amount of RAM.
Step 6. For your machine to be part of the InfiniBand/VPI fabric, a Subnet Manager must be running
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 7. (InfiniBand only) Run the hca_self_test.ofed utility to verify whether or not the Infini-
Band 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 the latest firmware, no firmware update will occur and the
installation script will print at the end of installation a message similar to the following:
...
The firmware version on /dev/mst/mt26448_pci_cr0 - 2.9.1000 is up
to date.
Note: To force firmware update use '--force-fw-update' flag.
The firmware version on /dev/mst/mt4099_pci_cr0 - 2.11.500 is up
to date.
Note: To force firmware update use '--force-fw-update' flag.
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:
-I- Querying device ...
-E- Can't auto detect fw configuration file: ...
* soft memlock unlimited
* hard memlock unlimited