[openfabrics-ewg] EWG OFED Meeting Minutes: May 25, 2006
Matt Leininger
mlleinin at hpcn.ca.sandia.gov
Thu May 25 13:38:42 PDT 2006
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 15:43 -0400, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> The request for component maintainers to join the conference was
> literally minutes before the conference; I could not attend.
>
> OMPI is still in 1.1 "Rc" status but is doing well. The last known
> OMPI OFED-recorded bug that will be fixed for OFED 1.0 was fixed last
> night (PPC64 issue) - I will have a new Rpm in SVN in a day or two.
>
> When is rc6?
The current plan is rc-6 released on June 6, with the official 1.0
released a week later on June 13th.
- Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sujal Das [mailto:Sujal at Mellanox.com]
> Sent: Thu May 25 15:27:24 2006
> To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] EWG OFED Meeting Minutes: May 25,
> 2006
>
> Attendees:
>
>
>
> * Reini, Bob, Gunner, Ranjit - SilverStorm
> * Johann, Betsy: QLogic
> * Richard Frank - Oracle
> * Moni, Gali - Voltaire
> * Matt - Sandia,
> * Amit, Sujal, Tziporet - Mellanox
>
>
>
> No one attended from Cisco.
>
>
>
> Action Items are marked as [AI].
>
>
>
> Items for the agenda from release coordination point:
>
>
>
> Components status:
>
>
>
> 1. mthca
>
> o Source frozen.
>
> o No open issues.
>
> o Ready for GA
>
> 2. ipath
>
> o Two more patches for RC6.
>
> o On target to source freeze with RC6.
>
> 3. IPoIB
>
> o Source frozen.
>
> o No open issues.
>
> o Ready for GA
>
> 4. OpenSM
>
> a. Source frozen.
> b. No open issues.
> c. Ready for GA
>
> 5. OSU MPI
>
> o Need to run on large clusters
>
> o QLogic, Mellanox and Cisco are testing.
>
> o [AI] Need to know Cisco testing status
>
> o On target to source freeze with RC6 once large scale cluster
> testing is completed.
>
> 6. Open MPI
>
> o Technology preview in 1.0 release.
>
> o [AI] Jeff to comment on open issues.
>
> 7. SRP
>
> o Open back-port issues with IA 64. Being worked on.
>
> o Roland has committed FMR patch.
>
> o Do not know status of PPC support. [AI] Cisco to update.
>
> o [AI] Cisco's SRP testing status. Gateways, DDN target, LSI
> Target?
>
> o Who is testing DDN Target? [AI] Cisco please confirm if you
> are.
>
> o SilverStorm SRP Gateway, LSI SRP target being tested.
>
> o Feature currently not included - dynamically adding/removal of
> target, failover (what failover driver to test with, XVM from SGI, MPP
> from LSI?). These features not needed in initial HPC release.
>
> 8. iSER
>
> o Tested. Stable.
>
> o SST reported an issue that need addressing
>
> o Support for SLES 10 in RC6. SLES 10 RC2 not committed.
>
> o Tested on Voltaire gateway and native IB attached target.
>
> o On target to source freeze with RC 6 and GA
>
> 9. UDAPL
>
> * [AI] Cisco and Intel to report status of testing with
> Intel MPI
> * There may be UDAPL fixes required by Intel MPI, are
> they
> in RC5? [AI] Intel needs to confirm.
> * [AI] Intel, please test RC5
> * Need to freeze source with RC6 and get to GA quality:
> [AI]: Cisco or Intel needs to make the call.
> * HP MPI uses UDAPL as well - [AI]:Gali will follow up
> to
> verify if HP will test and bless the RC5 UDAPL
>
> 10. SDP
>
> o Will be technology preview in 1.0 release.
>
> o All details of SDP features and limitations are in RC5 release
> notes.
>
> o Cannot be in frozen in RC6. GA planned with v1.1 (see Release
> Plan below)
>
> o Who will test RC5: SST, QLogic, Voltaire. [AI] Cisco, please
> confirm you will test.
>
> 11. RDS
>
> o Will be technology preview in 1.0 release
>
> o Intel, SilverStorm, QLogic testing the RDS is OFED .
>
> o Oracle setting up demo with Cisco with OFED RDS - iWARP and IB
> using OFED
>
> o Oracle Linux group started RDS effort - Oracle will certify
> this
> RDS and not the current RDS.
>
> o Oracle would like the Oracle RDS to be brought into OFED in
> the
> long run. Oracle RDS not ready for another 6 months.
>
> o Leave current SilverStorm contributed RDS in OFED as
> technology
> preview for now. Decide future course later.
>
> 12. Tools
>
> * Source frozen.
> * No open issues.
> * Ready for GA
>
>
>
>
>
> Release plan:
>
>
>
> RC6 - 6-Jun
>
> Official 1.0 release - 13-Jun
>
> Copyright and licensing policy discussion:
>
> o [AI]: Johann will talk to board, resolve open issues before
> June 6th.
>
> o [AI]: Betsy to send clear instructions to developers about
> what
> to include in source - before June 6th.
>
> Release with SDP and SRP as version 1.1 upgrade. Need to decide on
> date.
> Source freeze RC targeted end of June.
>
> o [AI]: Need intensive and wide-scale testing of SDP by the
> community, starting with RC5
>
>
>
> Testing status:
>
>
>
> [AI]: Need update from all companies on testing status + cluster size
> used.
>
> o Bob from SilverStorm
>
> o Moni from Voltaire
>
> o Scott from Cisco
>
> o Amit from Mellanox
>
> o Betsy from QLogic
>
> o Woody from Intel?
>
> Content important. Not format. Focus on RC5
>
>
>
> Release documents:
>
>
>
> [AI] Each component owner should send Tziporet release notes, and any
> other relevant document. No later than June 10th.
>
> Responsibilities:
>
> o Mthca - Tziporet
>
> o iPath - Betsy
>
> o IPoIB - Tziporet
>
> o OpenSM - Eitan Z
>
> o OSU MAPI - Pasha
>
> o Open Mpi - Jeff
>
> o SRP - Cisco or Mellanox
>
> o iSER - Moni
>
> o UDAPL - ?? [AI]: Can Intel or net App take this?
>
> o SDP - MST
>
> o RDS - Ranjit/Rick
>
> o Tools - Amit
>
>
>
>
>
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