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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Meeting minutes are available also on OFA Wiki: </FONT><A HREF="https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=Teleconf+07-02-2007"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">https://wiki.openfabrics.org/tiki-index.php?page=Teleconf+07-02-2007</FONT></U></A>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Abbreviated minutes / summary</FONT></B>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.2.1 support release - we plan a support release on beginning of August. </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.3 - decided that its most important to close the schedule and focus on most important features based on this schedule </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Based on discussion in the meeting it seems that the best target for OFED 1.3 is November 07 </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Most important features (from representative who participated in the meeting) </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Voltaire: ConnectX stable release </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">IBM - IPOIB CM without SRQ </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Qlogic: Package convenient for distros; ConnectX stable </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">iWARP: Chelsio: Get to GA level and NFSoRDMA integration. NetEffect: Get the drivers into OFED </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mellanox: ConnectX stable release; new package; QoS</FONT> </LI>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Action Items:</FONT></B>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Other EWG members (Cisco, Intel, Labs) - send most important features for 1.3 </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tziporet - set a meeting with Redhat & Novell to close the new package definition </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tziporet - publish OFED 1.3 schedule </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MPI people (DK, Jeff, Labs) - update your plans for OFED 1.3 - is there any specific requests toward SC07 </FONT></LI>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Detailed Minutes</FONT></B>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.2.1 release: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Companies that are mostly interested in such release (e.g. IBM, Chelsio) will do most of testing for their HW. </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Not all companies are committed to QA this release, so in the release notes we will mention this limitation. </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There are weekly builds of OFED 1.2 branch. Any other build should be requested from Vlad. </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.2.c: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All agree its important to have this code stream, and why it cannot be the same as 1.2, and that we cannot wait for 1.3. </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There are companies that are currently using this code stream and this will prevent them to participate in QA of 1.2.1 </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.3: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There was a discussion if we wish to have the release on November 07 or January 08 (all agreed that December is not a good month) </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Decision was to reduce features and have a release this year => November </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">There were no participants from the labs or MPI thus we lack information on important features that should be ready for SC07 </FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#800000" SIZE=2 FACE="Bookman Old Style">Tziporet Koren</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#800000" SIZE=2 FACE="Bookman Old Style">Software Director</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mellanox Technologies</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mailto: </FONT><A HREF="mailto:tziporet@mellanox.co.il"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tziporet@mellanox.co.il</FONT></U></A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tel +972-4-9097200, ext 380</FONT>
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