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Summary of Contents for Myricom Myrinet/PCI-X Network Interface Cards
- Page 1 Guide to Myrinet/PCI-X Network Interface Cards Hardware & Software Installation Principles of Operation Myricom, Inc Date: 11 March 2005 The most recent version of this document can be downloaded from http://www.myri.com/scs/doc/guide_to_pcix_nics.pdf © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
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Page 2: Regulatory Information
Disposal of lead-containing electronic components through regular trash channels is prohibited in many countries and regions, because the lead leached out of landfills may contaminate groundwater supplies. Myricom has proper channels for the disposal of these materials, and will dispose of any Myrinet products returned for that purpose to Myricom. - Page 3 -2, -4 such that, for example, a M3F-PCIXD-2 NIC has one Myrinet-Fiber port, has the Myricom Lanai XP processor operating at 225MHz, and has 2MB of local memory. A M3F2-PCIXE-2 NIC has two Myrinet-Fiber ports, has the Myrinet Lanai 2XP processor operating at 333MHz, and has 2MB of local memory.
- Page 4 These PCIX-series NICs operate in hosts with 75-133MHz PCI-X slots or 66MHz (3.3V) PCI slots. The PCIXD NICs are also available as host-card adaptors (HCA) for the IBM BladeCenter. Contact sales@myri.com for additional information on the IBM BladeCenter HCAs. © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
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Page 5: Ethernet Mac Address
A label similar to that above appears on the underside of every Myrinet/PCI-X NIC. This label contains the product code, the serial number, and the Ethernet MAC address. Please provide this information in any correspondence with Myricom support (help@myri.com). Installation As a first step in using Myrinet technology, you must install the Myrinet/PCI-X NICs into your hosts. - Page 6 In this photo the PCI slots are the long black connectors. There are four 64-bit PCI slots. Case 2: Rack-mounted host If you have a rack-mounted machine, the PCI-X slots will look something like the following: © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
- Page 7 PCI bus with another PCI device. Inasmuch as some PCI connectors are more close-fitting than others, you may need to push quite hard on the front panel and the edge of the card to seat the card securely. © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
- Page 8 PCI-X slots to run at full speed. (In the following pictures, the jumper is blue and located on the left side of the PCI slots.) Refer to the hardware specifications of the mother board for details of the PCI slots. © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
- Page 9 1U host, the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC must be installed with a riser card. The riser card is inserted on the PCI connector side of the card, and the riser card is then inserted into a PCI slot (as shown in the following photograph). If you © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
- Page 10 Inasmuch as some PCI connectors are more close-fitting than others, you may need to push quite hard to get the card to seat securely. Installed NIC (with attached riser card) Installed NIC (with riser card) © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
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Page 11: Operating System
Customer Support webpage (http://www.myri.com/scs/#downloads) for details of the recommended software and installation instructions. Troubleshooting information can be found in the Troubleshooting section of the Myrinet FAQ (http://www.myri.com/scs/FAQ) as well as the document "Myrinet Installation and Troubleshooting Guide". © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT... - Page 12 If the output you receive is similar to that above, namely you see the “Network controller: MYRICOM Inc” entry, the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC has been correctly detected. The card ID for the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC is 8043, the (rev 04) denotes a PCIXD NIC, and the (rev 05) denotes a PCIXE NIC.
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Page 13: Windows 2000 And Windows Xp
PCI card. Once a Myrinet/PCI-X NIC has been installed and the host powered on, the appearance of this dialog box will signal that Windows has detected the network interface card. Photo of Dialog Box © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT... - Page 14 This output contains the card ID, 8043, for the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC, and the card vendor ID for Myricom, 14C1 (as listed in the PCI Vendor registry). If the output you receive is similar to that above, the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC has been correctly detected, and you can now proceed to the software installation.
- Page 15 Defined. As soon as the GM software is loaded on the host, the entry will change to Available. Be aware that AIX keeps a memory of NICs previously installed in PCI slots. In this example, the Myrinet NIC previously installed in slot 1D-08 has since been removed. © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
- Page 16 | | | +-o gm <class gm> | | +-o usb@18 <class IOPCIDevice> <…> If the output you receive contains the “8043” device, the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC has been correctly detected, and you can now proceed to the software installation. © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
- Page 17 The card ID for the Myrinet/PCI-X NIC is 8043, and the vendor ID for Myricom (as listed in the PCI Vendor registry) is 14c1. In this example, the host contains one PCIXD NIC (rev=0x04) and one PCIXE NIC (rev=0x05).
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Page 18: Principles Of Operation
The front panel of the PCI-Short-Card NIC pictured above is the vertical metal plate on the left-hand side of the NIC. Two LEDs and the cable connector penetrate this PCI front panel (also known as a face plate). © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT... - Page 19 PCIXD NICs, or at 333MHz for the PCIXE and PCIXF NICs, and provides 1,800 MB/s (PCIXD) or 2,664 MB/s (PCIXE and PCIXF) of memory bandwidth for the RISC processor, the host-DMA engine, the network-DMA engines, and the copy/CRC engine. Byte parity is generated and checked. © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
- Page 20 Relative humidity 15% to 80% @ 50C, non-condensing. Storage: Temperature –40C to 70C. Relative humidity 90% @ 65C. Test connector: The test connector is used for Myricom’s production testing, and should not be used in normal service. Regulatory Approvals: Please see page 2.
- Page 21 Refer to http://www.myri.com/myrinet/performance/ for full details on the application- level performance difference between the PCIXD, PCIXE, and PCIXF NICs. © 2005 Myricom, Inc. DRAFT...
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