HyperFabric Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v1)

Planning the Fabric
Hyper Messaging Protocol (HMP)
Chapter 232
HP MPI is a native implementation of version 1.2 of the
Message-Passing Interface Standard. It has become the industry
standard for distributed technical applications and is supported on
most technical computing platforms.
HMP is certified with HP-MPI 1.7 on both HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX
11i v1.
HMP is certified with HP-MPI 1.7.2 which uses HMP as the default
interconnect.There are distinct differences between the feature set
that is supported for HMP and the feature set that is supported for
TCP/UDP/IP.
Features
The following are the HyperFabric features on HMP:
• OnLine Addition and Replacement (OLAR): Not Supported
The OLAR feature, which allows the replacement or addition of
HyperFabric adapter cards while the system (node) is running, is not
supported when applications use HMP to communicate.
• Event Monitoring Service (EMS): Supported
Starting with December 2000 releases of HyperFabric (B.11.00.11
and B.11.11.01), the HyperFabric EMS monitor enables the system
administrator to separately monitor each HyperFabric adapter on
every node in the fabric, in addition to monitoring the entire
HyperFabric subsystem. The monitor can inform the user if the
resource being monitored is UP or DOWN. The administrator defines
the condition to trigger a notification (usually a change in interface
status). Notification can be accomplished with a SNMP trap, or by
logging into a user specified log file with a choice of severity, or by
email to a user defined email address.
For more information on EMS, including instructions for
implementing this feature, see “Configuring the HyperFabric EMS
Monitor” on page 101 in this manual, and the EMS Hardware
Monitors User’s Guide Part Number B6191-90028 September 2001
Edition.
• ServiceGuard: Supported