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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Bill,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>2 small changes to the diagram on slide
6.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>SRP box should be yellow since it is IB
specific.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Drop the word "R-NIC" from the User APIs
box.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I think we can improve this diagram
message.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Both kernel and user API boxes for "verbs/API" should be
non-colored "common".</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=229234413-16102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Arkady</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal align=left><SPAN class=SpellE><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Arkady</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <SPAN
class=SpellE>Kanevsky</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>email: <A
href="mailto:arkady@netapp.com">arkady@netapp.com</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Network
Appliance Inc.<SPAN
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</SPAN><SPAN class=GramE>phone</SPAN>: 781-768-5395<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Trapelo Rd. - Suite 16.</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Fax:
781-895-1195<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Waltham, MA
02451
central phone: 781-768-5300</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Bill Boas
[mailto:bboas@systemfabricworks.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 15, 2006
5:03 PM<BR><B>To:</B> openib-promoters@openib.org; Openfabrics-ewg@openib.org;
openib-general@openib.org; financial@hsir.org<BR><B>Cc:</B>
a.federico@caspur.it ; Jacques-Charles.Lafoucriere@cea.fr ;
ute.lembke@toyota-f1.com ; tsodring@simula.no ; 'Kyril Faenov';
gbrunsdo@cisco.com ; marc.mendez@bull.net ;
wim.obbels@cc.kuleuven.be ; Pompey.Nagra@qlogic.com ;
lthiers@datadirectnetworks.com; ftillier@silverstorm.com ;
Patrice.Lucas@cea.fr ; dag.moxnes@sun.com ;
Frank.Glaeser@thomson.net ; alexander.elbs@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de ;
boenisch@hlrs.de; andrey.slepuhin@t-platforms.ru ;
moray@quadrics.com ; bmt@zurich.ibm.com ;
philippe.gregoire@cea.fr ; philippe.bernadat@hp.com ;
eeb@bartonsoftware.com ; clement.t.cole@intel.com ; 'Jeffrey Scott';
Stephane.Thiell@cea.fr ; gmontry@neteffect.com ;
wdey@cisco.com ; hermann.vondrateln@qlogic.com;
ralf.koehler@thomson.net ; Stephane.Mathieu@cea.fr ;
amir.sharif@cisco.com ; lui@zurich.ibm.com ;
philippe.bruiant@falconstor.com ; lgatineau@serviware.com ;
ince.muenchrath-weiss@intel.com ; bill.magro@intel.com ;
psrivats@cisco.com ; slyness@silverstorm.com ;
a.thomasch@de.ibm.com; tuan.phamdo@intel.com ; Kianoosh Naghshineh;
svenar@simula.no ; xpillons@microsoft.com ;
jean-louis.lavignon@bull.net; jpa@prism.uvsq.fr ;
holger.obermaier@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de ; vzverev@genesis.spb.ru ;
tskeie@simula.no ; gunther.mayer@volkswagen.de ;
a.righi@cineca.it ; Harvey.Richardson@sun.com ;
pchevaux@cisco.com ; nkelshik@cisco.com ; jean.Gonnord@cea.fr;
sverre.jarp@cern.ch ; m.rosati@caspur.it ;
thomas.jacob@intel.com ; line.holen@sun.com ;
mans@arastra.com <BR><B>Subject:</B> [openib-general] OpenFabrics
Developer Summit at SC06, Tampa Nov 16 - 17<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">To all in the OpenFabrics
Community<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">We will be holding our
first Developer Summit in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Tampa</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Convention
Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> courtesy of SC06 starting at 1.30PM in Room
17 on Thursday November 16, 2006. On Friday November 17, we will start in Room
13 at 8.00 AM and continue till 5.00PM. We have had to schedule into these
time slots because no other usable space is available at any other times
during the week of SC06!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">OpenFabrics will cater
food and beverages for afternoon break and supper on Thursday, breakfast,
lunch and two breaks on Friday. We will set up a registration site at Acteva
to collect $$ to cover our out of pocket expenses – I’ll email out the URL for
that site in the next day or two.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Please review attached
Strawman purposes, suggested attendees and agenda. Any changes or comments,
please email them to the community for all to comment on please.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">The <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City></st1:place> has several
dimensions and themes throughout our work there:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">1) –
consistency and robustness of the Linux and Windows software stacks for
Release 2.0 of OpenFabrics;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">2) - feature
selection, development resources and timelines for Release
2.0;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">3) -
activities, features and processes of the Enterprise Working Group on OFED 1.x
until Release 2.0 is ready hand-off to the EWG;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">4) –
enhancing the resources of the EWG to be ready for 2.0 it so that it may be
subsequently be distributed as OFED 2.0. and adopted by the OpenFabrics vendor
and customer communities for production use.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">This is a far too much
work for just a day and half! PLEASE START NOW exchanging ideas for additional
features, contact peer engineers from companies and customers to discuss work
sizing, development resources, identify volunteer developers for items so that
when we meet on the 16<SUP>th</SUP> we’re not starting from a blank
sheet!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Sujal Das, Johann George,
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Matt Leininger</st1:PersonName>, Pramod Srivatsa,
Hal Rosenstock, Tom Tucker and Bob Woodruff are leading the pre-meeting,
STRAWMAN collation of requirements, feature prioritization, developer
assignments, sizing and processes so that we have the list largely complete
prior to the meeting and people know has already volunteered for items from
the list.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Bill
Boas<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">VP, Business Development |
System Fabric Works<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">bboas@systemfabricworks.com |
510-375-8840<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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