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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for your input.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>See inside.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tziporet</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)
[mailto:sweitzen@cisco.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, May 07, 2006 10:29
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Tziporet Koren;
openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> openib-general<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [openib-general]
OFED-1.0-rc4 is available</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>We see many problems
with RC4, we've only tested i686 and x86_64 so far (just started ia64 and
ppc64).</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>1) If the new SDP does
not make it in until RC5, I don't see how we can avoid an RC6.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I agree – and this
is what I meant in my mail last week. We plan RC5 with SDP and then RC6 for
showstopper bugs.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>2) SRP is missing on
RHEL4 (</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51">http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51</a><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'>), which is a big regression.</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><br>
It was removed on purpose since when running simple tests system is hanged due
to the spin-lock issue in kernel 2.6.9 (see discussion of Ishai and Doug about
this). We can put it back but I don’t see a point in putting something that
easily halts the machine or causing kernel oops. Ishai is working to debug it
and once it is solved we will put it back.<br>
What is your opinion on this?</span></font></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>3) RDS does not load on
RHEL4 U3 (</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61">http://openib.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61</a><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'>).</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><br>
SilverStorm should fix this.</span></font></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>4) No MPI for ppc64.</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><br>
Pasha will try to work with OSU and solve it this week.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>5) Open MPI is not
working well for Pallas benchmarks, more details to follow.</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><br>
That’s Jeff’s</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Scott Weitzenkamp</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>SQA and Release Manager</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Server Virtualization
Business Unit</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Cisco Systems</span></font></p>
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.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> openib-general-bounces@openib.org [mailto:openib-general-bounces@openib.org]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Tziporet Koren<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:04
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> openib-general<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [openib-general]
OFED-1.0-rc4 is available</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->Hi All,</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We have prepared</span></font> <font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>OFED 1.0 RC4.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Release location: *<a
href="https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/">https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/</a>ofed/releases*</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>File:</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>OFED-1.0-rc4.tgz</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>*BUILD_ID:*</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>OFED-1.0-rc4</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>openib-1.0 (REV=6922)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'># User space</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/src/userspace">https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/src/userspace</a></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'># Kernel space</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>git/HEAD: ref: refs/heads/for-2.6.17 </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>commit
9817d207dc13e3a9fc0287bbd36bdfa3cffe5ed4</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/tags/rc4/linux-kernel">https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/1.0/ofed/tags/rc4/linux-kernel</a></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'># MPI</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>mpi_osu-0.9.7-mlx2.1.0.tgz</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>openmpi-1.1a3-1.src.rpm</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>mpitests-1.0-0.src.rpm</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>*OSes:*</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * RH EL4 up2: 2.6.9-22.ELsmp</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * RH EL4 up3: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * Fedora C4: 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * SLES10 beta 7:
2.6.16-rc5-git9-2-smp</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * SUSE 10 Pro: 2.6.13-15-smp</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * kernel.org: 2.6.16</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>*Systems:*</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * x86_64</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * x86</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * ia64</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> * ppc64</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>*Main changes from RC3:*</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kernel code
based on git (see BUILD_ID for version)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>SRP - with
new features: FMR, tunable parameters, SRP daemon (see details below)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Open MPI
– new package based on 1.1a3</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>4. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>RDS –
new version from main trunk</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>5. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Standard
network configuration:</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Network configuration scripts</span></font><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>ifcfg-ib*</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, located
under</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts (.../network for SuSE)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>6. </span></font>
</i></b><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>/etc/modprobe.conf</span></font></i></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> updated
with:</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>alias
ib0 ib_ipoib </span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>...</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>alias
net-pf-26 ib_sdp</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Note:
this causes unloading</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>the ipoib</span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>module</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>to
fail on SuSE (hotplug issue)</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>7. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ipath driver</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>available
on RH EL4</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>(up2 and up3).</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>8. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>uDAPL</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>is</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>available</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>on RH
EL4 (up2 and up3).</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>9. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Documentation
updated (the</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>installation guide is not complete).</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>10. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>pdsh</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>has
been removed from the package.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>11. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>libibat</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>has
been removed.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>12. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bug Fixes</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>*Package limitations:*</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>iSER is
working on SuSE SLES 10 Beta8 only</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>SDP has not
been</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>upgraded yet.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>MPI OSU and
Open MPI compilation fails on PPC64</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>4. </span></font> <font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ipath driver
compilation fails on</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>FedoraC4.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>*SRP details:*</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>SRP new features and changes:</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>FMR
support was added.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Added
an interface for removing a target in the initiator.</span></font> </p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Added
an interface for querying the connected targets of an initiator.</span></font> </p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
SRP tool ibsrpdm can execute as a daemon. The daemon adds new targets that join
the network and removes targets that leave the network.</span></font> </p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ibsrpdm
can use new SM feature: enhanced capability mask matching (errata MGTWG8372)</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Limitation:</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Attempting
to add the same target twice fails</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>– to be fixed in RC5.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
implementation of the target list query</span></font> <font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>must be modified.
The new implementation should create a directory in sysfs for each target</span></font>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>–
to be fixed in RC5.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Please send</span></font> <font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>us any issues you encounter and/or
test results.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tziporet & Vlad</span></font></p>
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