[rds-devel] iWARP RDMA patch

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Thu Nov 6 13:02:33 PST 2008


Richard Frank wrote:
> Steve Wise wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 3) then a full RAC IPC certification..on 16 nodes.. fully redundant 
>>> fabric - executed by vendor..
>>>
>>
>> So chelsio needs to build this 16 node cluster?
>>
> yes..
>> What do you mean exactly by "fully redundant"?
>>
>>
> every node has dual ports (ideally dual HCAs) configured with 
> redundant switches.
>
> The RAC IPC tests will run various fault injections under heavy Oracle 
> load - killing sets of nodes, paths, and switches testing fail over 
> and fail back, etc.

Ok, so 16 systems that have 2 8x pci-e slots and 2 chelsio cards.  Dual 
switches.

Memory per node?

# of cores needed per node?

Distro needed?






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