New product 10GB card

Centos default installation

1. Install CentOS 6.5 from PXE
2. update the system

    yum update -y

3. install development tools and kernel development

    yum groupinstall 'development tools'-y

    yum groupinstall -y kernel-devel

Netowrk Cards Installation

• Does the card get detected by the OS? Log this as part of the reporting below. Record the module name and version if auto detected.
• Install the latest vendors modules/software
  • Link to solarflare module install process
  • Link to exablaze module install process
  • Link to intel module install process
  • Link to mellanox module install process
  • Link to Chelsio T420 installation and testing
    • http://wiki.bostonlabs.co.uk/w/index.php/Chelsio:Driver_Installation

1. (each of the pages above could be a vendor landing page with further links to specific versions of nics / cards)

• Run netperf benchmark

1. Link to installing and running netperf benchmark
2. Link to netperf results (this could be on the same page as above)

• Run sockperf benchmark

1. Link

• Run MPI benchmarks, need to capture latency, bandwidth and message rate

1. IMB link
2. Message rate (MSQR) link

• Run vendor specific benchmarks

1. Links for each of the vendors landing pages (which would have an installation page and a results / benchmarking page)

• Anything else?