What’s new in Intel® Cluster Checker version 2.2

Intel® Cluster Checker version 2.2 is an update in conjunction with Intel® Cluster Ready Architecture Specification version 1.3.1 release and also adds additional functions and capabilities.

The version includes:

• Added support for verifying compliance to Intel® Cluster Ready architecture version 1.3.1
• Enhanced infiniband configuration checking for systems using Intel® True Scale InfiniBand* Host Channel Adapters
• Enhanced dgemm test module configuration
• Merger of micperf and stream test modules
• Merger of micmpi and mpi_internode modules
• Auto detection of Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors
• Enhanced dgemm testing for native execution mode on Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors
• Auto creation of groups based on node architecture
• Enhanced hpl test module to include Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors
• Enhanced imb_pingpong test module to support Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors
• Enhanced kernel test module to also check kernel parameter consistency.

This version also resolves issues from previous releases of the tool:

• Mount test module should now pass on SLES11SP2* for all non-English locales.
• The hpl test module updated to depend on the imb_pingpong test module.
• Default set of InfiniBand* kernel modules were updated to reflect a more general list.
• The imb_pingpong test module enabled for configurations using Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors without InfiniBand*.
• Fixed issue with the hardware test module identifying the correct amount of system memory when running as unprivileged user.
• Fixed issue with the kernel test module not properly excluding values using the param_exclude tag in the configuration file.
• Fixed issue with the remote_login test module reporting failure of login latency check.

For more information on Intel® Cluster Ready go to http://www.intel.com/go/cluster.