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<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">Hi</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"> All,</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">Mellanox is willing to contribute its newly developed</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">management</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"> simulator.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">This simulator can be used to validate OpenSM and diagnostic tools that send and receive SMP and PM</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">MADs from the fabric. </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">The simulator have an inter</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">fac</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">e for</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">clients to attach to a virtual IB node and</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">send/receive mads to.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">OpenSM has a vendor layer implementation that can talk to the simulator.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">The software involved is</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">made of two</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">packages: </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">IBDM</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">-</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"> a generic data model describing the fabric</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">IBMgtSim</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">-</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"> the simulator</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"> (an engine for dispatching mads, an SMA and PMA implementations).</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">As I</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">'</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">m ready to upload the code into OpenIB I wonder where it should fit in the tree?</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><B><I></I></B><A NAME="_MailAutoSig"><B><I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=6 FACE="Monotype Corsiva">Eitan Zahavi</FONT></I></B></A></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Design Technology Director</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Mellanox Technologies LTD</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Tel:+972-4-9097208<BR>
Fax:+972-4-9593245</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">P.O. Box 586 Yokneam 20692 ISRAEL</FONT></P>
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