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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Mellanox supports Cisco (Jeff) as the primary maintainer for
Open MPI and Voltaire (Gleb) as the backup maintainer for Open MPI<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As the primary maintainer of SDP, Mellanox recommends that
Cisco (Kamen) be the backup maintainer for SDP because of two reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cisco was the primary
     maintainer of SDP prior to Mellanox</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The recent experiences Cisco
     has garnered deploying SDP on Wall Street will be valuable in getting the
     Open Fabrics SDP to production quality</span></font> <font size=2
     face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We hope this is acceptable to all.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sujal
Das<br>
Mellanox Technologies Inc. <br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'><ns0:address w:insAuthor="IBM" w:insDate="2006-03-23T10:12:00Z"
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   w:st="on">2900 Stender Way</st1:Street></ns0:Street></st1:address>, <ns0:City
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 <ns0:State w:insAuthor="IBM" w:insDate="2006-03-23T10:12:00Z"
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 </ns0:PostalCode></ns0:address>Work: 408-916-0007<br>
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  w:insDate="2006-03-23T10:12:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="IBM"
  w:endInsDate="2006-03-23T10:12:00Z">Mobile</ns0:City></ns0:place>:
408-802-1387   <br>
Skype: sujal.das</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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