Failover Support in the OFA* Device

The Intel® MPI Library recognizes the following events to detect hardware issues:

Intel® MPI Library stops using a port or the whole adapter for communications if one of these issues is detected. The communications continue through an available port or adapter, if the application is running in multi-rail mode. The application is aborted if no healthy ports/adapters are available.

Intel® MPI Library also recognizes the following event

The event indicates that the port can be used again and is enabled for communications.