Myrinet System Interconnect Guide

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Contents

About This Manual

1 Myrinet interconnect overview

1.1

Interconnect char

acteristics .................................................

1-1

1.2

Backplane and chassis types ................................................ 1-2

1.3

Wiring rules ................................................................... 1-4

2 PCI cards

2.1

General characteristics ...................................................... 2-1

2.2

Single-port XP PCI card ..................................................... 2-2

2.3

Dual-port 2XP PCI

............................................................

2-3

2.4

Single-port 2XP PCI .......................................................... 2-5

3 Switch, spine and monitoring line cards

3.1

Switch card .................................................................... 3-1

3.2

Spine card ...................................................................... 3-3

3.3

Monitoring line card .......................................................... 3-4

4LEDindication

s and diagnostics

4.1

Line card and PCI LEDs ..................................................... 4-1

4.2

Using LEDs for diagnostics ................................................. 4-1

4.3

Using the monito

ring line card for diagnostics ...........................

4-2

5 Replacing components

5.1

Installing a monitoring line card ........................................... 5-1

5.1.1

Rebooting the mo

nitoring line card ...................................

5-2

5.2

Removing and installing an 8-port line card ............................. 5-2

5.3

Replacing a fan tray .......................................................... 5-4

5.4

Replacing an int

erconnect chassis .........................................

5-5

5.4.1

Removing the interconnect from the rack ............................ 5-5

5.4.2

Swapping the line cards ................................................. 5-9

5.4.3

Replacing the in

terconnect in the rack ...............................

5-10

6 Powering u p procedure

Index

Figures

1-1

Fat Tree Topology ............................................................. 1-1

1-2

Myrinet System Interconnect Backplane ................................. 1-2

1-3

Federated Conf

iguration Switches .........................................

1-2

1-4

Nonfederated Configuration Switch ....................................... 1-3

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