            Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
                          Version 1.2.c
                       Installation Guide

                           August 2007

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Table of contents
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 1.  Overview
 2.  Contents of the OFED Distribution
 3.  Hardware and Software Requirements
 4.  How to Download and Extract the OFED Distribution
 5.  Installing OFED Software
 6.  Building OFED RPMs
 7.  IPoIB Configuration
 8.  Uninstalling OFED
 9.  Configuration
 10. Related Documentation


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1. Overview
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This is the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 1.2.c
software package supporting InfiniBand and iWARP fabrics. It is composed
of several software modules intended for use on a computer cluster
constructed as an InfiniBand subnet or an iWARP network.

This document describes how to install the various modules and test them in
a Linux environment.

General Notes:
 1) The install script removes all previously installed OFED packages
    and re-installs from scratch. (Note: Configuration files will not
    be removed).  You will be prompted to acknowledge the deletion of
    the old packages.

 2) When installing OFED on an entire [homogeneous] cluster, a common
    strategy is to build the software only once (perhaps on a shared
    file system such as NFS).  The resulting RPMs can then be installed
    on all nodes in the cluster using any cluster-aware tools (such as
    pdsh).

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2. OFED Package Contents
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The OFED Distribution package generates RPMs for installing the following:

  o   OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
        - HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, ipath, ehca)
	- iWARP driver (cxgb3)
  o   OpenFabrics core and ULPs
        - HCA drivers (mthca, ipath, ehca)
        - iWARP driver (cxgb3)
        - core
        - Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator, iSER Initiator
          RDS, VNIC and uDAPL
  o   OpenFabrics utilities
        - OpenSM: InfiniBand Subnet Manager
        - Diagnostic tools
        - Performance tests
  o   MPI
        - OSU MVAPICH stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
        - Open MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
        - OSU MVAPICH2 stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
        - MPI benchmark tests (OSU BW/LAT, Intel MPI Benchmark, Presta)
  o   Extra packages
        - open-iscsi: open-iscsi initiator with iSER support
        - ib-bonding: Bonding driver for IPoIB interface
  o   Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the
      modules' LICENSE files)
  o   Documentation

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3. Hardware and Software Requirements
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1) Server platform with InfiniBand HCA or iWARP RNIC (see OFED Distribution
   Release Notes for details)

2) Linux operating system (see OFED Distribution Release Notes for details)

3) Administrator privileges on your machine(s)

4) Disk Space:  - For Build & Installation: 300MB
                - For Installation only:    200MB

5) For the OFED Distribution to compile on your machine, some software
   packages of your operating system (OS) distribution are required. These
   are listed here.

OS Distribution         Required Packages
---------------         ----------------------------------
General:
o  Common to all        gcc, glib, glib-devel, glibc, glibc-devel,
                        glibc-devel-32bit (to build 32-bit libraries on x86_86
                        and ppc64),
                        zlib-devel, automake, autoconf, libtool.
o  RedHat, Fedora       kernel-devel, rpm-build
o  SLES 9.0             kernel-source, udev, rpm
o  SLES 10.0            kernel-source, rpm

Note:   To build 32-bit libraries on x86_64 and ppc64 platforms, the 32-bit
        glibc-devel should be installed.

Specific Component Requirements:
o  Mvapich              a Fortran Compiler (such as gcc-g77)
o  Mvapich2             libstdc++-devel, sysfsutils (SuSE),
                        libsysfs-devel (RedHat5.0, Fedora C6)
o  Open MPI             libstdc++-devel, sysfsutils (SuSE),
                        libsysfs-devel (RedHat5.0, Fedora C6)
o  ibutils              tcl-8.4, tcl-devel-8.4, tk, libstdc++-devel
o  tvflash              pciutils-devel
o  mstflint             libstdc++-devel (32-bit on ppc64)

Note:   The installer will warn you if you attempt to compile any of the
        above packages and do not have the prerequisites installed.


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4. How to Download and Extract the OFED Distribution
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1) Download the OFED-X.X.X.tgz file to your target Linux host.

   If this package is to be installed on a cluster, it is recommended to
   download it to an NFS shared directory.

2) Extract the package using:

     tar xzvf OFED-X.X.X.tgz

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5. Installing OFED Software
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1) Go to the directory into which the package was extracted:

     cd /..../OFED-X.X.X

2) Installing the OFED package must be done as root.  For a
   menu-driven first build and installation, run the installer
   script:

     ./install.sh

   Interactive menus will direct you through the install process.

   Note: After the installer completes, information about the OFED
         installation such as the prefix, the kernel version, and
         installation parameters can be found by running
         /etc/infiniband/info.

   During the interactive installation of OFED, two files are
   generated: ofed.conf and ofed_net.conf.
   ofed.conf holds the installed software modules and configuration settings
   chosen by the user. ofed_net.conf holds the IPoIB settings chosen by the
   user.

   If the package is installed on a cluster-shared directory, these
   files can then be used to perform an automatic, unattended
   installation of OFED on other machines in the cluster. The
   unattended installation will use the same choices as were selected
   in the interactive installation.

   For an automatic installation on any host, run the following:

     ./OFED-X.X.X/install.sh -c <path>/ofed.conf -net <path>/ofed_net.conf

Notes:
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a. It is possible to rename and/or edit the ofed.conf and ofed_net.conf files.
   Thus it is possible to change user choices (observing the original format).
   See examples of ofed.conf and ofed_net.conf under OFED-X.X.X/docs.

b. To make debugging kernel issues easier, it is recommended to set the
   following environment variable before building OFED:
   export OPENIB_KERNEL_EXTRA_CFLAGS=-g
   This will attach debug info to generated kernel binaries without affecting
   their speed.

c. Important note for open-iscsi users:
   Installing iSER as part of the OFED installation will also install
   open-iscsi. Before installing OFED, please uninstall any open-iscsi version
   that may be installed on your machine. Installing OFED with iSER support
   while another open-iscsi version is already installed will cause the
   installation process to fail.


Install Process Results:
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o The OFED package is installed under <prefix> directory. Default prefix is
  /usr
o The kernel modules are installed under:
  - Infiniband subsystem:
    /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/kernel/drivers/infiniband/
  - open-iscsi:
    /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/kernel/drivers/scsi/
  - Chelsio driver:
  /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/kernel/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3.ko
  - RDS:
    /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/kernel/net/rds/rds.ko
o The package kernel include files are placed under <prefix>/src/openib.
  These includes should be used when building kernel modules which use
  the Openfabrics stack. (Note that these includes, if needed, are
  "backported" to your kernel).
o The raw package (un-backported) source files are placed under
  <prefix>/src/ofa_kernel-1.2
o The script "openibd" is installed under /etc/init.d/. This script can
  be used to load and unload the software stack.
o The directory /etc/infiniband is created with the files "info" and
  "openib.conf". The "info" script can be used to retrieve OFED
  installation information. The "openib.conf" file contains the list of
  modules that are loaded when the "openibd" script is used.
o The file "90-ib.rules" is installed under /etc/udev/rules.d/
o man pages are installed under /usr/share/man
o If libibverbs-utils is installed, then ofed.sh and ofed.csh are
  installed under /etc/profile.d/. These automatically update the PATH
  environment variable with <prefix>/bin.  In addition, ofed.conf is
  installed under /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ to update the dynamic linker's
  run-time search path to find the InfiniBand shared libraries.
o The file /etc/modprobe.conf is updated to include the following:
  - "alias ib<n> ib_ipoib" for each ib<n> interface.
  - "alias net-pf-27 ib_sdp" for sdp.
o If opensm is installed, the daemon opensmd is installed under /etc/init.d/
  and opensm.conf is installed under /etc.
o If IPoIB configuration files are included, ifcfg-ib<n> files will be
  installed at:
  - RedHat: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
  - SuSE: /etc/sysconfig/network/
o If iSER is included, open-iscsi user-space files will be also installed:
  - Configuration files will be installed at /etc/iscsi
  - Startup script will be installed at:
    - RedHat: /etc/init.d/iscsi
    - SuSE: /etc/init.d/open-iscsi
  - Other tools (iscsiadm, iscsid, iscsi_discovery, iscsi-iname, iscsistart)
    will be installed under /sbin.
  - Documentation will be installed under:
    - RedHat: /usr/share/doc/iscsi-initiator-utils-<version number>
    - SuSE: /usr/share/doc/packages/open-iscsi
o man pages will be installed under /usr/share/man/.

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6. Building OFED RPMs
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1) Go to the directory into which the package was extracted:

     cd /..../OFED-X.X.X

   Building RPMs can be done as a non-root user.

2) For interactive build run the build.sh script:

     ./build.sh

   Interactive menus will direct you through the build process.

   During the manual building of OFED RPMs, ofed.conf is generated.
   ofed.conf holds the selected software modules and configuration
   settings chosen by the user.

3) For an automated build, run the following:

     ./OFED-X.X.X/build.sh -c <path>/ofed.conf

   Note: It is possible to rename and/or edit the ofed.conf file. Thus
         it is possible to change user choices (observing the original format).
         See an example of ofed.conf under OFED-X.X.X/docs.

Build Process Results
---------------------

The OFED build.sh script builds OFED binary RPMs under
OFED-X.X.X/RPMS; the sources are placed in OFED-X.X.X/SRPMS/.
Running this script does not change any currently installed
components, and the script does not change the current kernel build.

Once the build process has completed, the user may run ./install.sh to
install the new RPMs. This time, however, any previously installed
OFED components will be uninstalled and the newly built package will
be installed.

Note: Depending on your hardware, the build procedure may take 30-45
      minutes.  Installation, however, is a relatively short process
      (~5 minutes).  A common strategy for OFED installation on large
      homogeneous clusters is to extract the tarball on a network
      file system (such as NFS), build OFED on NFS, and then run the
      installer on each node with the RPMs that were previously built.

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7. IP-over-IB (IPoIB) Configuration
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Configuring IPoIB is an optional step during the installation.  During
an interactive installation, the user may choose to insert the ifcfg-ib<n>
files.  If this option is chosen, the ifcfg-ib<n> files will be
installed under:

- RedHat: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
- SuSE:   /etc/sysconfig/network/

Setting IPoIB Configuration:
----------------------------

The default IPoIB interface configuration is based on DHCP.  Note that
a special patch for DHCP servers is required for supporting IPoIB
clients.  A patch for dhcp v3.0.4 is is available under
OFED-X.X.X/docs/dhcp.

If you are not using DHCP to obtain IP addresses for clients using
IPoIB, you must manually specify the full IP configuration during the
interactive installation: IP address, network address, netmask, and
broadcast address.

For unattended installations, a configuration file can be provided
with this information.  The configuration file must specify the
following information:
- Fixed values for each IPoIB interface
- Base IPoIB configuration on Ethernet configuration (may be useful for
  cluster configuration)

Here are some examples of ofed_net.conf:

# Static settings; all values provided by this file
IPADDR_ib0=172.16.0.4
NETMASK_ib0=255.255.0.0
NETWORK_ib0=172.16.0.0
BROADCAST_ib0=172.16.255.255
ONBOOT_ib0=1

# Based on eth0; each '*' will be replaced with corresponding octet
# from eth0.
LAN_INTERFACE_ib0=eth0
IPADDR_ib0=172.16.'*'.'*'
NETMASK_ib0=255.255.0.0
NETWORK_ib0=172.16.0.0
BROADCAST_ib0=172.16.255.255
ONBOOT_ib0=1

# Based on the first eth<n> interface that is found (for n=0,1,...);
# each '*' will be replaced with corresponding octet from eth<n>.
LAN_INTERFACE_ib0=
IPADDR_ib0=172.16.'*'.'*'
NETMASK_ib0=255.255.0.0
NETWORK_ib0=172.16.0.0
BROADCAST_ib0=172.16.255.255
ONBOOT_ib0=1

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8. Uninstalling OFED
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There are two ways to uninstall OFED:
1) Via the installation menu.
2) Using the script ofed_uninstall.sh. The script is part of ofed-scripts
   package.


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9. Configuration
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Most of the OFED components can be configured or reconfigured after
the installation by modifying the relevant configuration files.  The
list of the modules that will be loaded automatically upon boot can be
found in the /etc/infiniband/openib.conf file.  Other configuration
files include:
- SDP configuration file:    /etc/libsdp.conf
- OpenSM configuration file: /etc/opensm.conf
- DAPL configuration file:   /etc/dat.conf

See packages Release Notes for more details.

Note: After the installer completes, information about the OFED
      installation such as the prefix, kernel version, and
      installation parameters can be found by running
      /etc/infiniband/info.

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10. Related Documentation
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OFED documentation is located in the ofed-docs RPM.  After
installation the documents are located under the directory:
/usr/share/doc/ofed-docs-1.2 for RedHat
/usr/share/doc/packages/ofed-docs-1.2 for SuSE

Document list:

   o README.txt
   o OFED_Installation_Guide.txt
   o MPI_README.txt
   o Examples of configuration files
   o OFED_tips.txt
   o HOWTO.build_ofed
   o All release notes and README files

For more information, please visit the OpenFabrics web site:

   http://www.openfabrics.org/

open-iscsi documentation is located at:
- RedHat: /usr/share/doc/iscsi-initiator-utils-<version number>
- SuSE: /usr/share/doc/packages/open-iscsi

For more information, please visit the open-iscsi web site:

   http://www.open-iscsi.org/
