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12 Dell HPC Omni-Path Fabric: Supported Architecture and Application Study June 2016
3 Intel
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Omni-Path Fabric Software
3.1 Available Installation Packages
The following packages
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are available for an Intel
®
Omni-Path Fabric:
 Intel
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Omni-Path Fabric Host Software – This is the basic installation package that provides Intel
®
Omni-Path Fabric Host components needed to set up compute, I/O and service nodes with drivers,
stacks and basic tools for local configuration and monitoring. This package is usually installed on
compute-nodes.
 Intel
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Omni-Path Fabric Suite (IFS) Software – This package installs all the components that are
included in basic and adds additional fabric management tools like FastFabric and Fabric Manager.
 Intel
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Omni-Path Fabric Suite Fabric Manger GUI – This package can be used to monitor and manage
one or more fabrics and it can be installed on a computer outside of the fabric.
3.1.1 Supported Operating Systems
The following list of operating systems are supported by Omni-Path Fabric Host/Suite Software with IFS
10.0.1.1.5( pre-release ):
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, 7.2
 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, 12 SP1
 CentOS 7.1
 Scientific Linux 7.1
The Dell HPC release is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 kernel version 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64.
3.1.2 Operating System Prerequisites
The following packages must be installed before installing the Intel
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Omni-Path Software.
RHEL 7.x
The following packages can be installed using yum from the RHEL distribution:
 libibmad
 libibverbs
 infinipath-psm
 sysfsutils
 expect
 atlas
Please check the Intel Omni-Path software installation Guide for the list of packages to be installed on other
Operating Systems.
Note: The IFS package conflicts with the MLNX OFED packages. Hence it is important that MLNX OFED not
be installed in conjunction with IFS packages to avoid any conflicts or error messages.