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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>Cisco SQA has
started testing DDR, I've enclosed spreadsheets for both OFED test results and
MPI performance. All our testing so far has been on RHEL4 U3. <FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>We plan to start testing SLES10
this week.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>Some improvements we
see for OFED 1.1rc1 vs 1.0fcs:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>SDP latency is the
best I've ever seen it, although throughput is still not back to where it
was.</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>SDP stability seems
greatly improved compared to OFED 1.0 rc5-fcs.</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>Intel MPI 2.0.1
seems to be more scalable compared to OFED 1.0.</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>There are some major
regressions though:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>Open MPI does not
work at all on 64-bit RHEL4 (bug 197).</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>tvflash no longer
works on RHEL4 ppc64 (bug 198).</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>I'd like to request
we try to also fix the following bugs for OFED 1.1fcs:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>175 (<FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>add /proc, /sys, and ideally netstat support for
SDP), as it's hard to debug SDP with just strace.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT><SPAN class=109251006-16082006>183 (node_desc does not alway have
hostname in it), as we have a customer who depends on this
info.</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scott Weitzenkamp</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>SQA and Release Manager</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Server Virtualization Business
Unit</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cisco Systems</FONT></DIV>
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