I've been trying to get c1ioo on the Dolphin network, but have not yet been successful.
Background: if we can put the c1ioo machine on the fast Dolphin IPC network, we can essentially eliminate latencies between the c1als model and the c1lsc model, which are currently connected via a rube goldberg-esq c1lsc->dolphin->c1sus->rfm->c1ioo configuration.
Rolf gave us a Dolpin host adapter card, and we purchased a Dolphin fiber cable to run from the 1X2 rack to the 1X4 rack where the Dolphin switch is.
Yesterday I installed the dolphin card into c1ioo. Unfortunately, c1ioo, which is Sun Fire X4600, and therefore different than the rest of the front end machines, doesn't seem to be recognizing the card. The /etc/dolphin_present.sh script, which is supposed to detect the presence of the card by grep'ing for the string 'Stargen' in the lspci output, returns null.
I've tried moving the card to different PCIe slots, as well as swapping it out with another Dolphin host adapter that we have. Neither worked.
I looked at the Dolphin host adapter installed in c1lsc and it's quite different, presumably a newer or older model. Not sure if that has anything to do with anything.
I'm contacting Rolf to see if he has any other ideas. |