[OMPI devel] [ofa-general] OpenMPI and RDMA-CM

[Andrew Friedley]

Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On May 7, 2007, at 6:09 PM, Steve Wise wrote:
> 
>>> You'd probably be better asking this question on the Open MPI mailing
>>> lists, not here.  :-)
>>>
>>> FWIW, yes, adding RDMA CM support has actually been on my to-do list
>>> for a while, but it keeps getting bumped by higher priority items.
>>> It would be *much* better if some iWARP companies got involved in
>>> Open MPI...
>> Chelsio's gonna pony up the resources to get this work done asap.  Do
>> you have any thoughts on how we can collaborate on this project?  I'm
>> familiar with mvapich, not ompi, so I need to go do some homework.   
>> But
>> any pointers on the connection setup design for ompi would be great.
> 
> Excellent!  Let's chat on the phone tomorrow -- this would probably  
> be the best way to start.
> 
> We will need a signed Open MPI 3rd party contribution agreement from  
> either you and/or Chelsio (whoever owns the intellectual property  
> that will be contributed).  See http://www.open-mpi.org/community/ 
> contribute/.
> 
>> I'm CCing devel at openmpi.org in case anyone else is interested in
>> helping.  Chelsio can provide rnic HW...
> 
> Anyone else here interested?  Free hardware!  :-)

Hmm I'm interested.  I've already done some work switching over to RDMA 
CM for some research stuff I've been doing; it's not publicly accessible 
w/o the 3rd party agreement.  I can help answer questions on what 
exactly needs to change, and do some testing.

Andrew