Yearly Archives: 2023

Act 1 - The Problem Here be known our Complicating Incident. Look at that fancy new server just installed in the rack with 8x HDR 200Gb InfiniBand HCAs on it. WOW. That is going to make your data scientist stakeholders very happy. Linux is installed and it's just dying to consume input. This particular node [...]

Most HPC administrators have had to cut their teeth on SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) at some point. And most of them have torn their hair out getting SRP to work. SRP is a fine remote block storage protocol that is one of the rocks HPC was built opon -- if a little dated. Troubleshooting [...]