HPC-X Requirements
The platform and requirements for HPC-X are detailed in the following table:
| Platform | Drivers and HCAs |
|---|---|
OFED/MLNX_OFED |
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| HCAs |
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HPC-X Content
The following communications libraries and acceleration packages are part of this Mellanox HPC-X® package:
| Library/Acceleration Package | Version Number |
|---|---|
Open MPI | 4.1.x |
Mellanox Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) | 2.6 |
HCOLL | 4.7 |
UCX | 1.14 |
| UCC | 1.0 |
Open SHMEM specification compliance | 1.41 |
| ClusterKit2 | 1.6 |
nccl-rdma-sharp-plugin3 | 2.1 |
- Full Open SHMEM v1.4 support is available only if compiled with C11 Standard (see Rebuilding Open MPI from HPC-X™ Sources).
- ClusterKit is a multifaceted node assessment tool for high performance clusters.
- nccl-rdma-sharp plugin enables RDMA and Switch-based collectives (SHARP) with NVIDIA's NCCL library.
Important Note
When HPC-X is launched with Open MPI without a resource manager job environment (slurm,pbs, etc.), or when it is launched from a compute node, the default rsh/ssh-based launcher will be used. This launcher does not propagate environment variables to the compute nodes. Thus, it is important to ensure the propagation of LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable from HPC-x is done as follows.%mpirun -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH -np 2 -H host1,host2 $HPCX_MPI_TESTS_DIR/examples/hello_c
Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
The following table lists the supported operating systems and CPUs for the latest HPC-X.
Starting from HPC-X v2.9, HPC-X will no longer support PPC architecture.
Operating System | Platforms |
RHEL/CentOS 7.2 | x86_64 |
RHEL/CentOS 7.3 | x86_64 |
RHEL/CentOS 7.4 | x86_64 |
RHEL/CentOS 7.5 | x86_64 |
RHEL/CentOS 7.6 | x86_64 |
RHEL7.7/CentOS 7.7 | x86_64 |
RHEL7.8/CentOS 7.8 | x86_64 |
RHEL7.9/CentOS 7.9 | x86_64 |
RHEL/CentOS 8.0 | x86_64, AArch64 |
RHEL/CentOS 8.1 | x86_64, AArch64 |
RHEL/CentOS 8.2 | x86_64, AArch64 |
RHEL8.3/CentOS 8.3 | x86_64, AArch64 |
SLES 12 SP4 | x86_64, AArch64 |
SLES 12 SP5 | x86_64 |
SLES 15 SP1 | x86_64 |
SLES 15 SP2 | x86_64 |
SLES 15 SP3 | x86_64 |
Ubuntu 16.04 | x86_64 |
Ubuntu 18.04 | x86_64 |
Ubuntu 20.04 | x86_64, AArch64 |
Ubuntu 21.04 | x86_64 |
OpenEuler 20.03 | x86_64, AArch64 |
Kylin 10 SP1 | x86_64, AArch64 |
