Service Manual

22 Installation Guide
Additional Information
InfiniBand Configuration
InfiniBand is supported as the cluster application network. This section
describes the process of setting up an InfiniBand
Interconnect on a Windows
HPC Cluster.
Installing InfiniBand Drivers
1 Ensure that the InfiniBand adapters have the latest firmware.
NOTE: The minimum recommended version is 2.7 or later.
2 Download the 64-bit Windows InfiniBand Drivers (MLNX_WinOF)
for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Edition from
mellanox.com .
3 Double-click the downloaded WinOF Windows Installer Package file to
install drivers manually on the head node.
After installing the drivers, InfiniBand ports is discovered as additional
network interfaces.
4 Open Network and Sharing Center , select Manage network connections
and assign a static IP address to the
IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) interface.
5 To install the drivers on the compute nodes, you can use the command
line installation.
a Place the WinOF Windows Installer Package file at a shared location,
on the head node.
b From the Node Management pane in the HPC Cluster Manager ,
select the compute nodes on which you need to install InfiniBand
drivers.
c Right-click and select Run Command .
The
Run a Command window is displayed.
d Type the following command for unattended installation of the driver:
msiexec /qn /i <Absolute Path to the WinOF MSI
package on the network>
The drivers are now installed.
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