Understanding Maximum System Limits; Identifying Host Channel Adapters And Firmware; Identifying The Servers Models Supported As Nodes - HP Cluster Platform Introduction v2010 Introduction Manual

Gigabit Ethernet system interconnect, if present.
13
Gigabit Ethernet switch for cluster administrative network, if present.
14
InfiniBand system interconnect, if present.
15

2.3 Understanding Maximum System Limits

In this release of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster 2003, supported HP Cluster Platform
configurations are constrained as follows:
• HP Cluster Platform Express is constrained to clusters ranging from 5 to 33 nodes.
• HP Cluster Platform is constrained to clusters ranging from 5 to 512 nodes for CP3000 and
CP4000 models. Models employing blade and c-Class blade servers are constrained to 1024
nodes.
• InfiniBand interconnect single data rate (SDR) and double data rate (DDR).

2.4 Identifying Host Channel Adapters and Firmware

Every cluster node that is part of the high-speed InfiniBand fabric requires a host channel adapter
(HCA) installed in its PCI bus. The HCA is always installed in a specific PCI slot on an unshared
bus of the appropriate speed, ensuring system performance. For this release, the supported HCA
models are specified in
Note:
For instructions on upgrading the HCA firmware on Microsoft Windows Compute Clusters,
refer to the Voltaire HCA 4X0 User Manual for Windows GridStack.
.
Table 2-1 Supported HCA Cards
Model
380299-B21: InfiniBand 4X
380298-B21: InfiniBand 4X
409377-B21: InfiniBand 4X
For information on supported firmware and stack revisions, see the HP Cluster Platform InfiniBand
Fabric Management and Diagnostic Guide. You can download the latest information about supported
firmware revisions from http://www.docs.hp.com/en/highperfcomp.html.
For mor information, see

2.5 Identifying the Servers Models Supported as Nodes

HP Cluster Platform hardware utilizes several CPU architectures and supports many models of
HP server. Table
Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster 2003.
Table 2-2 Supported Servers
Model
ProLiant DL140
ProLiant DL145
ProLiant DL360
ProLiant DL365
16 Understanding Supported Cluster Configurations
Table 2-1. Single-port InfiniBand cards are also supported.
PCI Bus Type
PCI-X
PCI-Express
PCI-Express
Chapter 4, which describes the GridStack™ InfiniBand stack.
Table 2-2 defines the servers that are supported in cluster platform under
CPU Type
Intel Xeon
AMD Opteron
Intel Xeon
AMD Opteron
Description
Dual-port card with 128 MB attached memory
Dual-port with 128 MB attached memory
HP HPC 4X DDR IB Mezzanine HCA for HP
BladeSystem c-Class
Description
1U rack-mount server
1U rack-mount server
1U rack-mount server
1U rack-mount server