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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=874461005-25072006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Cisco IB host drivers are available at <A
href="http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sfs-linux">http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sfs-linux</A> and
<A
href="http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sfs-win2K">http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sfs-win2K</A>.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Scott</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> openib-general-bounces@openib.org
[mailto:openib-general-bounces@openib.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tziporet
Koren<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 24, 2006 2:45 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> openib<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 planning meeting -
summary<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi
all,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is the outcome
of the meeting we had today regarding OFED 1.1 schedule and
features.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tziporet</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1. Schedule:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">============</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Target release date: 31-Aug
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Intermediate
milestones:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Create 1.1 branch of user level code and rc1: 27-Jul</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">2.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Feature freeze : 3-Aug </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">3.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=1><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=DE>Code freeze (rc-x): 25-Aug </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">4.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=1><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=DE>Final release: 31-Aug</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In general all agreed
but it seems aggressive schedule. We will delay in 1 week if needed or drop
some features.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There was a request
for another OFED release toward SC06 that will include most updated Open MPI
version and we agreed this is possible.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">git tree of kernel
code will be available on Sandia servers once their system administrator will
setup the server with git installed (should be this week)</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">2. Features:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">============</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Note: features that are under low
priority may not be qualified in final release due to schedule
limitations.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1. OS:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Novell:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- SLES 9.0 SP3*</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">– SLES10 (official
release)*</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Redhat:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">– Redhat EL4 up3</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Redhat EL4 up4<FONT color=navy><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy">*</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">kernel.org:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">– Kernel 2.6.17*</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">* Changes from last
release</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Note: Redhat EL4 up2, Fedora C4 and SuSE
Pro 10 were dropped from the list.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We will keep the backport patches for
these OSes and make sure OFED compile and loaded properly but will not do full
QA cycle.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">2. General changes:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>lib32 on 64 bits systems</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Kernel code based on 2.6.18</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>HCA fatal - full flow support - Low priority</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>High Availability in IPoIB and SRP</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Bug fixes</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">3. OSM (new code based on the
trunk):</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Partition Manager (Pkey) - Low priority </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Pre-computed routing load from file </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr>Primitive QoS - As technology
preview </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Mainly developed and verified by
Voltaire.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">4. SDP:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Beta quality (higher stability)</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Improved latency</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Improved bandwidth of small messages (Naggle algorithm) –
done</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Support the backlog parameter in the listen call</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr>support sending/receiving out of
band data </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Interoperability with previous SDP implementation</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">We need SDP from Cisco to test the
interoperability with their SDP</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">5. SRP:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>GA quality</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>DM (Device Mapper) - for high availability</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN dir=ltr>Basic failover/failback testing with
daemon+srp+XVM/MPP and Engenio target</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">A technical mail was published on the
general list. (Subject: Needed changes to support fail-over drivers). Need
help from Roland to close the technical details since he is SRP
maintainer.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">6. IPoIB:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>High availability support using a daemon in user level</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">7. uDAPL:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Scalability features needed for Intel MPI </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Going to take the new code from the trunk</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">8. OSU – MVAPICH:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Based on 0.97 (+ bug fixes)</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Message coalescing</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">9. Open MPI:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Open MPI 1.1.1 - Depending on the dates/schedule of OFED 1.1 and
Open MPI 1.1.1 (If not then Open MPI 1.1 will be used)</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>The major differences between Open MPI 1.1 and 1.1.1 can be seen
here: <A
href="http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk/NEWS">http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk/NEWS</A></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">10. MPI tests:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Replace to the new test versions from LLNL, Intel, OSU</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">11. iSER:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Stability - code review and bug fixes at iser and libiscsi code
related to error handling (libiscsi is a service module used by both iscsi_tcp
& iser)</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Testing more platforms (e.g. ppc64 and ia64)</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Performance improvements</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>The libiscsi fixes are (2.6.18-rc2/3) and will (2.6.19) be
pushed upstream and from there be propagated to distros (eg SLES10 RH5)
through their merge process.</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">12. RDS:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Oracle and SilverStorm should update </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Need to decide if RDS should be removed
from OFED since Oracle does not support it for now.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy">Sujal will check it and we will get to
decision soon.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">13: Management: </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Madeye utility </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Add saquery tool</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Enhancement to ibnetdiscover tool with grouping function</P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">–</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>New ibutils package: </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">o</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Port error counter check </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">o</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Port performance counters dump </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><FONT
face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">o</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></FONT>Link width and Link Speed check by flag</P>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org]
On Behalf Of Sujal Das<BR>Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:32 PM<BR>To:
openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<BR>Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] OFED 1.1 planning
meeting</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hello all,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We would like to call an OFED v1.1
planning meeting ASAP. We can use</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the regular time and call-in number that
Shawn/Jeff from Cisco had set</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">up earlier. Shawn/Jeff: will you
please confirm and send a reminder?</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Some critical feature requirements for
OFED 1.1 are based on customer</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">feedback on OFED 1.0, specifically some
missing features that continue</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">the perception of OFED 1.0 as being
inferior to proprietary stacks:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Support for SLES 9 in
general</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- SRP failover and MPP</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- SDP usability</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- RDS usability</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- UDAPL scalability</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- High Availability</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Additional OS/CPU platforms support for
iSER, sync with upstream</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">kernel</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">- Etc</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sujal </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">_______________________________________________</SPAN></FONT></P>
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