HP Fabric Clustering System Release Notes HP-UX 11i v2 Manufacturing Part Number: J6376-90005 May 2004 Printed in the US © Copyright 2004-2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
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HP Fabric Clustering System Product Overview HP Fabric Clustering System The information in this document is for the HP Fabric Clustering System Version 1.0 only. Product Overview HP’s Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand provides a high-performance computing environment intended for use for applications sensitive to latency, bandwidth, and CPU-consumption. InfiniBand is an RDMA-interconnect.
HP Fabric Clustering System Product Documentation HP Fabric Clustering System Advantages HP Fabric Clustering System addresses four problems: • Application to application latency. • Application CPU consumption. • Network bandwidth. • Fabric Management.
HP Fabric Clustering System Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Hardware Requirements Supported HP Integrity Server Platforms: Table 1 Platform Platform Compatibility Max HCAs rx26xx 2 rx1600 2 rx56xx 2 rx4640 2 rx7620 8 rx8620 8 Superdome 8 One instance of HP-UX supports a maximum of 8 HCAs regardless of the platform or expander. This is a software limit. No system will support more than 8 HCAs.
HP Fabric Clustering System Known Problems and Issues Known Problems and Issues HP Fabric Clustering System HCA and OL* None of the On-Line Add or Replace (OL*) features are currently supported for the HP Fabric Clustering System HCA. Reset of an HCA Before using the itutil -R command to reset an HCA, be sure to kill all applications in the fabric, or a panic may occur. Limit on Multicast Groups Neither of the following restrictions apply to switchless IB fabrics.
