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FreeBSD does support Infiniband: https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand This page mentions that Mellanox has provided work on
by renchap 9y ago
FreeBSD does support Infiniband: https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand https://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand
This page mentions that Mellanox has provided work on this. Also storage vendors uses external infiniband stacks on FreeBSD for many years (I got my first Isilon cluster something like 8 years ago, and it was using an IB backend, with a forked FreeBSD 7 kernel iirc) and are stable and widely deployed.
- X86BSD 9y agoAFAIR infiniband support in FreeBSD has been there for a very long time.
- lunchables 9y agoConsidering how much longer we've had supercomputers than 8 years maybe it was simply a matter of Linux got there first and had inertia.
- jpgvm 9y agoI didn't realise Isilon used BSD (was aware it was IB based) or that IB drivers work well on BSD, that is cool. That said, the primary platform is Linux and HPC is a very demanding workload. Unless I had a lot of time to invest in BSD kernel development I would stick with Linux. That is putting aside Lustre too which is usually a non-negotiable requirement for HPC.
- znpy 9y agoNo matter what your argument is, someone will always come up with the counter argument for a particular example, missing the general point.
- oliv__ 9y agoI need to print this on a T-shirt