Flashing Rebranded Mellanox Infiniband Cards and Homelab Infiniband, Part 3

I did the performance testing: Link. Bandwidth was about 3.3 GB/s , which is close to the theoretical maximum of 4GB/s (32 Gbit/s) of a QDR link. Primary conclusion: No significant difference between the firmware versions.

Next steps:

1. Flash all cards with 2.11.2010 firmware
2. Update IMPI and BIOS in other nodes, change BIOS settings to maximum performance
3. Install all Infiniband cards
4. Get OpenMPI and OpenFOAM working on one node. 
5. Run OpenFOAM benchmarks
6. Learn how to do network boot
1. If this fails, mirror node installation to other nodes' ssd's
7. Get clustered openmpi working over ethernet
8. Get clustered OpenFOAM working over ethernet
9. Get clustered OpenFOAM working over inifiniband