Myricom Myrinet/PCI-X Network Interface Cards Dokumentacja

Guide to Myrinet/PCI-X Network Interface Cards Hardware & Software Installation Principles of Operation Myricom, Inc. Date: 11 March 2005

must use a riser card and the riser card has multiple slots, insert the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC into the riser card slot closest to the PCI-X slot on the mo

Caution: If at all possible, avoid the user of a riser card. Although PCI riser cards are commonly used, they will generally violate PCI specificatio

Linux If your host is running Linux, you can issue the command /sbin/lspci, which will return all devices attached to the PCI bus. Screen image of

Windows 2000 and Windows XP For Windows 2000 and Windows XP, a “Found New Hardware” dialog box (as shown below) will appear when the host detects a n

Solaris If your host is running Solaris, you can issue the command /usr/sbin/prtconf, which will print the system configuration. You will see the fo

AIX If your host is running AIX, issue the command lsdev -Ct gmpci, and you should see output similar to the following. <…> ent2 Availab

Mac OS X If your host is running Mac OS X, you can issue the command ioreg, which will return all devices attached to the PCI bus. An excerpt of th

FreeBSD If your host is running FreeBSD, you can issue the command /usr/sbin/pciconf -l. Screen dump of /sbin/pciconf –l command The third column

Principles of Operation All Myrinet/PCI-X NICs include a RISC processor to execute the Myrinet Control Program (MCP), local memory, a packet inte

The green “link” LED will illuminate when the board is powered, the firmware (such as the GM-2 or MX-2G Myrinet Control Program) is loaded, and the li

Regulatory Information Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Myrinet-Fiber (M3F) network interface cards (NICs) and their fiber cables are fully comp

EEPROM: 512KB, which includes the PCI-configuration-space data; Vital Product Data (VPD), including the serial number, MAC address, product code, an

Refer to http://www.myri.com/myrinet/performance/ for full details on the application-level performance difference between the PCIXD, PCIXE, and PCIX

Introduction Myricom currently produces three series of Myrinet/PCI-X Network Interface Cards (NICs): the PCIXD series with 225MHz RISC and memory,

M3F2-PCIXE-2 two-port Myrinet-Fiber / PCI-X NIC with a standard PCI faceplate M3F-PCIXF-2 Myrinet-Fiber / PCI-X NIC with standard PCI faceplate

Identification on each Myrinet/PCI-X NIC Product code Serial number Ethernet MAC address The label on a Myrinet/PCI-X NIC A label similar to that

which PCI-X slots share a PCI bus. To minimize the signal degradation between the mother board and the NIC (and for best performance), we recommend t

PCI-X slots on a rack-mountable mother board In this photo, there are 6 PCI-X slots. One of the PCI-X slots is green, and the remaining five PCI-X

Installed NIC in a PCI-X slot Case 2: Rack-mounted host If the rack-mounted host is a 2U or larger, the low-profile PCI-short-card Myrinet/PCI-

Insertion of NIC (without riser card) into a PCI-X slot Installed NIC (without riser card) However, since space is very restricted in a 1U rack