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

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
    • http://wiki.bostonlabs.co.uk/w/index.php/Solarflare_SFN7322
  • Link to exablaze module install process
    • http://wiki.bostonlabs.co.uk/w/index.php/Exablaze:_EXANIC_Cards
  • Link to intel module install process
  • Link to mellanox module install process
    • http://wiki.bostonlabs.co.uk/w/index.php/Mellanox:training
  • Link to Chelsio card installation and testing
    • http://wiki.bostonlabs.co.uk/w/index.php/Chelsio:Network_Cards

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

Benchmarks

• 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. http://wiki.bostonlabs.co.uk/w/index.php/Benchmarking:_Sockperf
• 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?