Specifications

OFED+ Host SW
True Scale Fabric OFED+ Host Software
RN 7.2.2.0.8 February 2014
14 Order Number: H31512002US
1.10.3 Changes to Software Components
Table 7 shows the new software components supported for the releases listed.
1.10.4 Changes to Industry Standards Compliance
Table 8 shows each Basic OFED version that is supported and the Intel
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OFED+
Releases that include each
1.11 Product Constraints
The following is a list of product constraints for this release:
• The libgoto BLAS library included in the MPI sample applications for use by HPL is
no longer supported by the developer and does not support arbitrary combinations
of OS and CPU types.
— Mixing AMD and Intel CPUs is not supported
— AMD “Bulldozer” CPUs are not supported
— Mixing different Linux distributions may not work reliably.
An alternative to libgoto is the ATLAS library, which must be manually compiled for
each desired CPU type and Linux distribution. A sample version of ATLAS has been
provided in the same directory as the other sample MPI applications, and the latest
version may be found online at http://www.netlib.org/atlas/
Examples of using the ATLAS library can be found in the hpl and hpl-2.0 directories
with the other sample applications.”
• The version of Open MPI shipped with the Intel
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True Scale Fabric Suite Software is
incompatible with the Performance Application Programming Interface (“papi”)
libraries optionally available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6.x. If you have
installed the optional papi RPMs and try to use FastFabric to recompile Open MPI on
RHEL 6.x, you will first have to uninstall any installed version of papi if it is greater
than version 3.x. Older versions of papi (for example, papi-3.x) are still compatible
with the shipped version of OpenMPI
• All installation and uninstallation of Intel
®
OFED+ Host software package
components must be performed using the
./INSTALL or iba_config
commands. If software is manually installed or uninstalled using other methods
(RPM, other scripts, and so on), the installation on the system could become
inconsistent and cause unreliable operation, in which case subsequent runs of
./INSTALL or iba_config may make incorrect conclusions about the
configuration of the system and consequently make incorrect recommendations. If
the system becomes inconsistently configured, Intel recommends running the
./INSTALL TUI and selecting ReInstall on all components. Once the
re-installation has started, carefully review all prompts and choices.
Table 7. Changes to Software Component Support
Release Supported Software Added or Changed
7.2.0.0.42 Intel
®
True Scale Fabric OFED+ Host Software
7.2.1.1.22 Intel
®
True Scale Fabric OFED+ Host Software
7.2.2.0.8 Intel
®
True Scale Fabric OFED+ Host Software
Table 8. Changes to Industry Standards Compliance
Basic OFED Software Package Supported Intel
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OFED+ Host Software Package
Version 1.5.4.1 Version 7.2.0.0.42, 7.2.1.1.22, and 7.2.2.0.8