Re: Enhanced networking

From: Rayson Ho <no email>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:25:20 -0400

Again, if you have the latest stable version of StarCluster, and run it in
a VPC on a C3, then the ixgbevf driver should load.

And if you are interested in c3.8xlarge performance, we ran some benchmarks
on the c3.4xlarge & c3.8xlarge beginning of this year:

http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/2014/01/enhanced-networking-in-aws-cloud-part-2.html

Rayson

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Depardon Benjamin <
benjamin.depardon_at_sysfera.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll try that then.
> Actually, I asked because of this page:
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking.html#test-enhanced-networking
>
> It says that the ixgbevf driver should be activated for eth0 to use
> enhanced networking, but if I check on my compute node I have this output:
> root_at_node001:~# sudo ethtool -i eth0
> driver: vif
> version:
> firmware-version:
> bus-info: vif-0
> supports-statistics: yes
> supports-test: no
> supports-eeprom-access: no
> supports-register-dump: no
> supports-priv-flags: no
>
> Benjamin
>
>
> Le 27 juin 2014 à 16:59, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin_at_gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> The latest StarCluster HVM AMIs do support enhanced networking - ie. they
> come with the enhanced networking NIC drivers. All you need is run them in
> a VPC and use the instance types that support enhanced networking.
>
> Rayson
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> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:51 AM, Depardon Benjamin <
> benjamin.depardon_at_sysfera.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm interested in testing AWS Enhanced networking with starcluster.
>> As of now, I didn't find any AMI in Starcluster already packaged with
>> support for enhanced cluster.
>>
>> Has anyone already packaged such an image?
>> I'd like to do some tests with c3.8.xlarge instances.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Benjamin
>>
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