Datasheet

5–Software Installation

Set Up Your Environment

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Some operating system packages are required for OpenFabrics; they are listed in

Table 5-3.

There are also Operating System (OS) package requirements for some specific

components in QLogic OFED 1.4, as listed in Table 5-4.

Table 5-3. Required Operating System Packages

OS Distribution Required Packages

All gcc, glib, glibc

All (for development) glib-devel, glibc-devel, glibc-devel-32bit

(to build 32-bit libraries on x86_86 and ppc64),

zlib-devel

Red Hat and Red

Hat-derived kernels

kernel-devel, rpm-build

SLES 10 kernel-source, rpm

Table 5-4. Specific Component Requirements

QLogic OFED

Component

Required OS Packages

QLogic infinipath* soft-

ware (Listed as TrueScale

HCA Libs in the Installer)

openssh and openssh-server. Note that in the

SLES 10 distribution, openssh-server is a part of the

openssh package. These packages must be on every

node.

python. This package is required if the Multi-Purpose

Daemon (MPD) job launcher or the ipath_mtrr script

will be used.

MVAPICH a Fortran compiler

MVAPICH2 libstdc++-devel, sysfsutils (SLES), lib-

sysfs-devel (RedHat 5.0)

Open MPI libstdc++-devel

ibutils tcl-8.4, tcl-devel-8.4, tk, lib-

stdc++-devel

QLogic openmpi_gcc* libgfortran (on RHEL4)