
Building your own client kit 3–7
• Myrinet interconnect:
• To add support for the Myrinet interconnect driver, add the following to the command line:
--config gm
•To change the gm source RPM file used, add the following to the command line:
--gm path_to_gm_driver_source_RPM
• To drop the Myrinet option, specify "" as the path.
• Voltaire Infiniband interconnect:
To add support for a Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect, add the following to the command line:
--no_infiniband
This unconfigures the standard Linux InfiniBand from the kernel so that the Voltaire Infiniband
driver can be built against it.
NOTE: To determine which interconnects will build successfully for your client
distribution/architecture, please see Table 1-2 and Table 1-3 in Section 1.3.
4. If your client nodes are using a Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect to connect to the HP SFS system, you
must now perform the additional steps described in Section 3.2.2.1 to complete the building of the
HP SFS client kit.
3.2.2.1 Additional steps for systems using Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect
This section applies only if you are building an HP SFS client kit for client nodes that connect to the HP SFS
system using a Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect.
NOTE: When you are building an HP SFS client kit with Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect support, do not
include support for any other high-speed interconnect.
Where a Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect is used to connect client systems to the HP SFS system, you must
perform the following steps (in addition to the steps described in Section 3.2.2) to complete the building of
the HP SFS client kit. If you are building against a Version 2.4 kernel, you must use a Voltaire InfiniBand
Version 3.4.5 interconnect driver. If you are building against a Version 2.6 kernel, you must use a Voltaire
InfiniBand Version 3.5.5 interconnect driver.
Perform the following steps as root user:
1. If the system where you are building the kit is an x86_64 or em64t architecture, ensure that the 64-bit
and 32-bit GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) build tools are installed on the system.
These build tools are required for the build process for the Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect. If they are
not already installed, install them now; for example, you may need to install the i386 variant of the
glibc-devel package.
2. On the system where you are building the HP SFS client kit, install the kernel .rpm file that was
created by the build_SFS_client.sh script for the appropriate architecture, as shown in the
following example. In this example, the .rpm file for an em64t architecture using the 2.4.21-37
kernel is installed:
# rpm –i output/rpms/ia32e/kernel-2.4.21-37.EL_SFS2.2_0.ia32e.rpm
On RHEL 4 nodes and other nodes running Version 2.6 kernels, you must also install the kernel
development RPM, as follows:
# rpm –i output/rpms/x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-22.EL_SFS2.2_0.x86_64.rpm
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