[SCore-users] myricom PCI64C

[kameyama at pccluster.org]

In article <17orZG-0CL03kC at fwd05.sul.t-online.com> OHamann at t-online.de (Olaf Hamann) wrotes:
> has anybody experience with the new PCI64C cards (Myricom 2000, fibre, 200MHz
>  RISC
> and Memory) ??

The PCI64C cards works with SCore 5.0.1 on some hosts.

> Weve build a testcluster of 4 nodes (dual Xeon 2,2GHz) SCore 5.0.1 and it see
> ms, that
> there is a problem with the above cards (system hangs during pallas PMB bench
> mark).
> 
> With the ethernet device there is no problem and after replacing two M3F-PCI6
> 4C
> cards with two older M3F-PCI64B cards (133MHz RISC ...) the PMB benchmark goe
> s through
> the whole test (startet only on two nodes !!).

If IRQs of Myrinet NIC and Ethernet NIC are the same,
The same truble is happen (with M3F-PCI64B cards).

If you insert Myrinet cards in diffirent slot when replacing,
please insert PCI64C cards in the same slot with PCI64B cards.

                       from Kameyama Toyohisa