Tyan Computer THUNDER N3600QX - Manual (Page 85)

Appendix III: InfiniBand Installation Guide
InfiniBand™ enabling, Optional for S4987WG2NGI2 only
Note: The appendix just gives a draft picture of the InfiniBand™ driver
installation, for the detail please visit
http://www.mellanox.com/ to download
the latest InfiniBand Driver and users’ manual.
The InfiniBand™ Architecture (IBA) is an industry standard that defines a new
high-speed switched fabric subsystem designed to connect processor nodes
and I/O nodes to form a system area network. This new interconnected
method moves away from the local transaction-based I/O model across
buses to a remote message-passing model across channels. The
architecture is independent of the host operating system (OS) and the
processor platform.
Installer
- Installer developed using installShiled which is the most popular tool for
building installers
- MSI format
- Simple, self explained GUI installation
- Can be run in batch mode (no GUI) by’ msiexec/quit’
- Default install dir:\program files\Mellanox
- Add the installed package to “Add remove programs” and “start - > Program
- > Mellanox”
Some important notes:
– Your S4987 CD includes InfiniBand Driver, and for the latest Driver version,
please visit: http://www.mellanox.com/ to download the driver:
Click OFED to download Linux driver.
Click WinIB to download Windows driver.
– Supported HCA (Host Channel Adapters) must be installed before WinIB
installation.
– Since IB drivers are not certified by Microsoft, several security alerts will
pop during installation. Please accept them all.
*To prevent this please change to “ignore” in “My computer - >properties -
> Hardware -> Driver signing”;
– During installation “Find new hardware wizard” will popup. Please choose
“cancel” for all instances.
– Install Log file:\Windows\setupapi.log.
85