[openib-general] openMPI for 2.6.17.10 kernel

[Tom Tucker]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:20 -0500, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Tom Tucker wrote:
> 
> >> Then why did Tom Tucker tell me otherwise last week?  Hrm.  Tom --
> >> did I not explain our current scheme well last week?
> >
> > I certainly know we talked and I know you explained your current
> > out-of-band connection management scheme. I've got a reasonable
> > understanding of how the iWARP/TCP connection management stuff  
> > works, so
> > I'm pretty sure I didn't tell you that this kind of scheme would work
> > for iWARP. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
> 
> Yeah, I guess I misunderstood you.  Bummer.  So -- right -- OMPI will  
> not work over iWARP hardware today.
> 
> I'd like to have some iWARP vendors come in to OMPI and help fix  
> this.  :-)

Actually, I think that is a fantastic idea. I'm fairly sure that these
guys are up to their collective eyeballs in work right now, but it
certainly would give them visibility into the beast that their customer
prefers and hopefully a better product (both HBA and OpenMPI) for their
effort. 

How might they go about working with OpenMPI? 

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