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Testbed of our Project

Parts of the hardware basis for current developments and tests, as well as an InfiniScale™ MTEK43132 eight 4x Port InfiniBand switch, has been kindly made available by MEGWARE Computer GmbH, Chemnitz.

It consists of six identical systems with following components:

2 Intel® Xeon™ 2,4 GHz
SuperMicro motherboard X5DMS-6GM
2048 MB DDR Memory, PC2100, with ECC
Mellanox® InfiniHost™ MT23108 Cougar, 10Gb/s, 4x, dual port

The systems are running Red Hat Linux 7.3, kernel 2.4.23-pre3 from kernel.org. The Mellanox host channel adapters are using firmware fw-23108-rel-2_00_0000-rc14-build-001, the software development and drivers kit version is thca-x86-1.01-build-001. All compilations were done using the GNU C compiler gcc 3.3.1.

A photo of our testbed.

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