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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I hope we all had nice holidays and vacations, and now it’s the time to get back to business.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Agenda for OFED meeting today:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Conclusions from OFED 1.4 release: Open discussion</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Do we wish to have OFED 1.4.: Please send pros & cons before the meeting</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. OFED 1.5: Schedule and features.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This is what we presented in SC08 about 1.5:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Preliminary Schedule:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Feature Freeze: 3/20/09</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Alpha Release: 3/20/09</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Beta Release: 4/20/09</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RC1: 5/5/09</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RC2-RCx: About every 2 weeks as needed</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Release: June 2009</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Features:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kernel.org: 2.6.28 and 2.6.29</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Multiple Event Queues to support Multi-core CPUs</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NFS/RDMA</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">–</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> GA </FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">RDS support for iWARP</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OpenMPI 1.3</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Add support/backports for RedHat EL 5.3 and EL 4.8, SLES 11</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Support for Mellanox vNIC (EoIB) and FCoIB with BridgeX device</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">more TBD…</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We also presented the OS matrix but I suggest we will close this in the next meeting.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My proposal:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Have the release in July and not June - so we will have more time for development</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Stick to one kernel version base and not change in the middle since we saw that changing the kernel base caused a delay.<BR>
We need to decide in the meeting if it is 2.6.29 or we should wait for 2.6.30.</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
<DIV DIR=LTR><LI><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Add IB over Eth - this is similar to iWARP but more like IB (e.g. including UD), and can work over ConnectX.</FONT></SPAN></LI></DIV>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please send your suggestions to the list before the meeting if possible</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tziporet</FONT></SPAN></P>
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