[ofa-general] Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA

[arkady kanevsky]

I suspect more like a book along the lines of VIPL one from Intel.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Paul Grun <pgrun at systemfabricworks.com>wrote:

> In any event, I would be happy to volunteer to serve as an editor.  Since
> I'm a hardware guy I'm probably not a good choice to volunteer to author
> any
> of the technical sections.
>
> Did you really mean a tutorial, which to me implies a
> presentation/classroom
> format, or did you mean tutorial in the more colloquial sense of capturing
> the RDMA folklore in written form?
>
> -Paul
>
> Paul Grun
> Chief Scientist
> System Fabric Works, Inc
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Boas [mailto:Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:39 AM
> To: 'Richard Frank'; 'Andy Grover'
> Cc: 'Sumanta Chatterjee'; general at lists.openfabrics.org; 'Wayne
> Augsburger';
> 'Ryan, Jim'; 'Paul Gray'; 'Paul Grun'; bobs at voltaire.com; Scott Friedman;
> 'Jeff Squyres'; 'Roland Dreier'; asafs`@voltaire.com; 'Rupert Dance';
> Mikkel
> Hagen; 'arkady kanevsky'; 'OFA Marketing Working Group';
> iwg at lists.openfabrics.org
> Subject: RE: RDMA tutorial and OFA
>
> Richard, Andy,
>
> Thanks for copying me Richard. I had not seen Andy's email on the general
> list.
>
> Figuring out how to get tutorial and other documentation created and
> published in the list of things to get done in 2009 for me in my part-time
> role as Exec. Dir.
>
> There is no funding set up for this at the moment but I believe there will
> be in about 30 days.
>
> That's because I'm thinking that we can get funding for this by making it
> part of the funding for a new marketing plan for OFA that, with Wayne
> Augsburger and Jim Ryan, we are preparing for the OFA Board to vote on at
> the next con-call meeting which is on May 20 at 9.00AM PDT.
>
> Would you be willing to work with me and create a small team from others
> within OFA who have the same interest to prepare a description by May 20 of
> what the tutorial would look like, who would contribute to it, how to get
> it
> "polished up" for web and/or book style publication, what the overall costs
> would be, etc.
>
> My thoughts, that could be a starting point for the team's work, are that
> we
> would make the creation a collective effort.
>
> The tutorial would have several sections for example general intro,
> benefits
> of RDMA, applicability in HPC and Enterprise, networking background etc.
> Members of the Marketing Working Group would be responsible for this.
>
> The "meat" would be sections for kernel level things (verbs etc.), then
> user
> space things (verbs etc.), then APIs like MPI, SDP, EDS etc. - each section
> overseen by the technical leaders/maintainers of the code within OFA for
> that section (for Example Tom Talpey for NFSoRDMA, or you Richard for RDS)
>
> Finally the tutorial would have sections about Interoperability Testing
> that
> OFA/IOL does but also what customers can do on there own systems - Arkady
> and Rupert and IOL have put in an SC09 tutorial proposal that we could
> leverage in this section.
>
> To all readers of this email:-
> If you have read this far, please give us all some feedback. If you have
> material you'd like to contribute please say so. If there's a better way,
> tell us what you think it is!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill.
>
> Bill Boas
> Executive Director and Vice Chair
> OpenFabrics Alliance
> 510-375-8840
> Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org
> www.openfabrics.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Frank [mailto:richard.frank at oracle.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:58 PM
> To: Andy Grover
> Cc: Bill Boas; Sumanta Chatterjee
> Subject: Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA
>
> Andy, I saw your postings to ofa-general on this and I agree it would be
> great to have this documentation.
>
> As OpenFabrics is really about RDMA... we need to make it simpler
> for folks to pick up and run with RDMA concepts ...vs.. digging thru the IB
> specs and code examples, etc.
>
> Let's see what Bill Boas thinks...perhaps OFA has a writer on board that
> can help us do this..?
>
> I can also help provide input for a new OFA RDMA tutorial doc..
>
> Rick
>
> Andy Grover wrote:
> > Hi Rick,
> >
> > Are you around for a brief chat this afternoon? I have a crazy idea that
> > involves OFA doing something (or putting up $$) and I wanted to see what
> > you thought, since you're Oracle's OFA rep, right?
> >
> > -- Andy
> >
> >
>



-- 
Cheers,
Arkady Kanevsky
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