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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED March 24 meeting summary about OFED 1.4 and 1.3.1 plans:</FONT>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1.3.1 Release:</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As we decided we should do a release in 2-3 month after 1.3.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">In addition if there are any special fixes as outcome from the interop we can do a release earlier.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All - please send me your requests for fixed issues and needed time frame and I will publish 1.3.1 schedule based on this.</FONT></P>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OFED 1.4:</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Kernel base: since we target 1.4</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">release to Sep we target the kernel base to be 2.6.27</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This is a good target, but we may need to stay with 2.6.26 if the kernel progress will not be aligned.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Suggestions for new features:</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NFS-RDMA</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Verbs: Reliable Multicast (to be presented at Sonoma)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SDP - Zero copy (There was a question on IPv6 support - seems no one interested for now)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">IPoIB - continue with performance enhancements</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Xsigo new virtual NIC</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">New vendor HW support - non was reported so far (IBM and Chelsio - do you have something?)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OpenSM: </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Incremental routing </FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Temporary SA DB - to answer queries and a heavy sweep is done</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">APM - disjoint paths (?)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MKey manager (?)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sasha to send more management features</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MPI:</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Open MPI 1.3</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">APM support in MPI</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mvapich ???</FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">uDAPl </FONT></LI>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Extensions for new APIs (like XRC) - ?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">uDAPL provider for interop between Windows & Linux</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1.2 and 2.0 will stay</FONT></LI>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Supported OSes & kernels</FONT>
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<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RHEL 4 up 5,6,7</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RHEL 5 up 1,2 - all vendors please see if we can drop RHEL5 (base)</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SLES10 SP1 SP2</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kernel.org: start from 2.6.18 - need to decide here based on customers requests</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Fedora C8</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OpenSuSE 10.3</FONT></LI>
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<P><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Open</FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(for discussion at Sonoma)</FONT><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">:</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Do we want to move that user level part will be based on tarballs and not git</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">- Kernel.org and OFED kernel modules</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tziporet</FONT>
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