Hi all,<br>
We are going to develop some applications over the InfiniBand network.
And I would like to get some advice on choosing the IB driver: IBGD or
OpenIB.<br>
These applications are of certain scale and the developing will last
for a certain time. So a stable and reliable environment is needed. <br>
As a software collection provided by Mellanox, IBGD-1.8.0 is a good
choice.The open source at OpenIB is developed all the time and the
linux kernel that the latest IB driver need is changed every now and
then. That is what we do not like very much.<br>
However, I am wondering if any new feature is or will be provided in
the OpenIB driver, as it is developing all the time. Our applications
might benefit a lot if so. And could I still turn to this mail-list for
help when coming with problems if we were using the IBGD VAPI?<br>
Another is about the difference between the VAPIs in IBGD
and OpenIB in a programmer's view. The two are of
difference not just in name, I'm afraid.<br>
All I could think out is above and any suggestion is appreciated!<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ian Jiang<br><a href="mailto:ianjiang.ict@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ianjiang.ict@gmail.com
</a><br><br>Laboratory of Spatial Information Technology
<br>Division of System Architecture<br>Institute of Computing Technology<br>Chinese Academy of Sciences