infiniband

If for some obscure reason you ever want to use Ubuntu Server 7.10 in HPC1 scenarios where your compute nodes are interconnected through InfiniBand fabric bear this in mind – Ubuntu’s IB support is broken and it has been in such a state for at least an year! Besides not providing the full OFED package, Ubuntu also gives us errors in udev’s configuration, namely in /etc/udev/rules.d/20-names.rules. On a pristine system the Infiniband section reads: