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OFED - OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution.

Share your tips/tricks/lessons-learned for using OFED on Ubuntu.

OFED 3.5 support in Ubuntu

Please see OFED 3.5 and Ubuntu.pdf for details.

Among the last 4 Ubuntu releases, Ubuntu 13.04 has the most up-to-date packages as in OFED 3.5. However, there are still some packages that aren't available in the universe or not up to date as in OFED 3.5.

What's missing

• Fabric management: ibacm, ib-bonding.
• Hardware specific user space library: infinipath-psm (QLogic Truescale), libcxgb4 (Chelsio T4), and libehca (IBM).
• Utility: qperf

What's not the latest

• dapl
• libibcm
• mstflint
• ofed-docs
• perftest
• rds-tools
• libsdp

Resources

• OFA OFED Launchpad Project

• OFA OFED Launchpad Team/PPA

• OFED overview and resources

• Narayan Desai's IB PPA

• Roland Dreier's IB PPA