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<DIV><SPAN class=634070400-06062006><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>Folks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=634070400-06062006><FONT face=Verdana
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=634070400-06062006><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I believe there
was a request for the testing that Cisco is performing with OFED. The below is
some information that Scott has put together. The largest cluster we are testing
with is 32 nodes. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=634070400-06062006><FONT face=Verdana
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=634070400-06062006><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>We are testing 5 SDR HCA types (not DDR yet),
roughly in this order:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<UL dir=ltr>
<LI>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Lion Mini</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Cheetah</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Lion Cub</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Cougar Cub</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Cougar</FONT></SPAN></DIV></LI></UL>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>We are testing RHEL4 U3 on 4 hardware architectures, each
with 2 kernels, roughly in this order:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<UL dir=ltr>
<LI>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>x86_64 (smp and largesmp
kernels)</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>
<DIV align=left><SPAN class=334550517-05062006></SPAN>i686 (smp and hugemem
kernels)</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
<LI><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>ia64
(smp and largesmp)</FONT></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>ppc64
(smp and largesmp)</FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>We are testing 6 ULPs, testing functionality, performance, and stress,
roughly in this order (performance tests listed in parens):</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<UL dir=ltr>
<LI>
<DIV><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>MPI
(MVAPICH, Open MPI, Intel MPI, HP MPI) (OSU benchmark, Pallas,
NAS)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>IPoIB (netperf, Polygraph)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>SDP
(netperf, Polygraph)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>SRP
(dt)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>uDAPL (OSU MPI benchmark)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV><SPAN class=334550517-05062006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>RDS
(netperf)</FONT></SPAN></DIV></LI></UL>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=334550517-05062006>We are only testing RHEL4 U3, when SLES 10 comes out
this is going to double the testing. We are NOT testing Fedora Core, we
tried but it is too unstable.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=634070400-06062006>Regards,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=634070400-06062006>Pramod</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=1>=======================</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=1>Pramod Srivatsa</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=1>Product Manager, SVBU</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=1>M: 408.203.6543</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=1>E: </FONT><A
href="mailto:pramod.srivatsa@cisco.com"><FONT face=Verdana
size=1>pramod.srivatsa@cisco.com</FONT></A></DIV>
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