FW: [openib-general] Minutes from DAPL BOF at OpenIB Workshop

[Matt Leininger]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 10:51 -0800, Tom Duffy wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:46 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Maybe you should lay down the requirement first.
> 
> I'll take a crack at it.  Let me know where I am off base.
> 
> >  - why do we need an intermediate API
> 
> To get things working today with the code that people have already
> written.  To create a proof of concept.
> 
> In any event, I am not proposing this API get kernel inclusion.  Only a
> wider audience than in the sourceforge DAPL project cvs tree.
> 
> >  - what differences does it
> 
> ??
> 
> >  - what devices does it abstract
> 
> IB for now, any other RDMA capable transports later.
> 
> >  - what are the users
> 
> NFS over RDMA, maybe -- so RPC.  Anybody else know others?
> 
  uDAPL - Oracle, MPI
  kDAPL - iSER, NFS over RDMA, Lustre?

  - Matt