[openib-general] Announcing the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution

[Shawn Hansen (shahanse)]

OFED is focused on including open-source MPI in the distribution.
Commercial MPI ISVs can definitely test against OFED, make statements
about interoperability, and ask the community to make changes specific
to their stack. Likewise, IB vendors may directly do their own testing
with these MPI packages and/or support the ISV's efforts.

--Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Woodruff [mailto:robert.j.woodruff at intel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:23 PM
To: Shawn Hansen (shahanse); openib-general at openib.org
Subject: RE: [openib-general] Announcing the OpenFabrics Enterprise
Distribution

> Q: Why is OFED required?

>- Enterprise customers will have solution-level requirements that are 
>outside the scope of the 1.0 release, such as the distribution of MPI 
>stacks, support for pre-2.6.16 kernels, etc.  The goal of OFED is to 
>address this need.  Without OFED, each InfiniBand vendor would create 
>their own distribution of OpenFabrics to accomplish this goal, and may 
>not be interoperable.

What if a customer wants to use one of the comercially available MPIs,
such as Intel MPI or HP MPI, will OFED be validating that those MPIs
will work with the OFED distribution ?

woody