[openfabrics-ewg] Microsoft support for OpenFabrics

[David Ford]

At 07:35 PM 11/9/2006, Shawn Hansen wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Long time, no talk.  I'm now responsible for marketing Microsoft's Windows 
>Server line in this space (HPC, scale-out, etc.).
>
>I am relatively new in this position, but I can begin to represent 
>Microsoft's position here. I just read this thread, and want to clarify a 
>few things:
>
>1) OpenFabrics is important to Microsoft, and the engineering team is 
>spending significant cycles on this front driving to WHQL 
>certification.  Microsoft values a multi-vendor collaborative approach here.
>
>2) Microsoft will be at the Dev Summit.  I will be there, as will our key 
>product management team.
>
>3) We were asked if we wanted to speak this week, and when I saw the 
>proposed agenda, it looked like it was focused on Linux developers.  Since 
>the people we are sending are not developers, I recommended we be there to 
>participate, but not necessarily present at this level.
>
>4) If the group would like me to present a general introduction about 
>Microsoft's support for OpenFabrics, I can do so.

Shawn,

Welcome back! ;-)

I think it would be great if you could present on behalf of Micsosoft.

-- Dave

>We want to support the community here, and we're working closely with the 
>InfiniBand vendors to make RDMA on Windows a reality.
>
>Please let me know what questions I can answer.
>
>Regards,
>
>--Shawn
>---------------------------
>Shawn Hansen
>Director of Marketing
>Windows Server and Tools
>Microsoft Corporation
>
>
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