I suspect more like a book along the lines of VIPL one from Intel.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Paul Grun <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgrun@systemfabricworks.com">pgrun@systemfabricworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">In any event, I would be happy to volunteer to serve as an editor. Since<br>
I'm a hardware guy I'm probably not a good choice to volunteer to author any<br>
of the technical sections.<br>
<br>
Did you really mean a tutorial, which to me implies a presentation/classroom<br>
format, or did you mean tutorial in the more colloquial sense of capturing<br>
the RDMA folklore in written form?<br>
<br>
-Paul<br>
<br>
Paul Grun<br>
Chief Scientist<br>
System Fabric Works, Inc<br>
Office: (503) 620-8757<br>
Cell : (503) 703-5382<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Bill Boas [mailto:<a href="mailto:Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org">Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org</a>]<br>
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:39 AM<br>
To: 'Richard Frank'; 'Andy Grover'<br>
Cc: 'Sumanta Chatterjee'; <a href="mailto:general@lists.openfabrics.org">general@lists.openfabrics.org</a>; 'Wayne Augsburger';<br>
'Ryan, Jim'; 'Paul Gray'; 'Paul Grun'; <a href="mailto:bobs@voltaire.com">bobs@voltaire.com</a>; Scott Friedman;<br>
'Jeff Squyres'; 'Roland Dreier'; asafs`@<a href="http://voltaire.com" target="_blank">voltaire.com</a>; 'Rupert Dance'; Mikkel<br>
Hagen; 'arkady kanevsky'; 'OFA Marketing Working Group';<br>
<a href="mailto:iwg@lists.openfabrics.org">iwg@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br>
Subject: RE: RDMA tutorial and OFA<br>
<br>
Richard, Andy,<br>
<br>
Thanks for copying me Richard. I had not seen Andy's email on the general<br>
list.<br>
<br>
Figuring out how to get tutorial and other documentation created and<br>
published in the list of things to get done in 2009 for me in my part-time<br>
role as Exec. Dir.<br>
<br>
There is no funding set up for this at the moment but I believe there will<br>
be in about 30 days.<br>
<br>
That's because I'm thinking that we can get funding for this by making it<br>
part of the funding for a new marketing plan for OFA that, with Wayne<br>
Augsburger and Jim Ryan, we are preparing for the OFA Board to vote on at<br>
the next con-call meeting which is on May 20 at 9.00AM PDT.<br>
<br>
Would you be willing to work with me and create a small team from others<br>
within OFA who have the same interest to prepare a description by May 20 of<br>
what the tutorial would look like, who would contribute to it, how to get it<br>
"polished up" for web and/or book style publication, what the overall costs<br>
would be, etc.<br>
<br>
My thoughts, that could be a starting point for the team's work, are that we<br>
would make the creation a collective effort.<br>
<br>
The tutorial would have several sections for example general intro, benefits<br>
of RDMA, applicability in HPC and Enterprise, networking background etc.<br>
Members of the Marketing Working Group would be responsible for this.<br>
<br>
The "meat" would be sections for kernel level things (verbs etc.), then user<br>
space things (verbs etc.), then APIs like MPI, SDP, EDS etc. - each section<br>
overseen by the technical leaders/maintainers of the code within OFA for<br>
that section (for Example Tom Talpey for NFSoRDMA, or you Richard for RDS)<br>
<br>
Finally the tutorial would have sections about Interoperability Testing that<br>
OFA/IOL does but also what customers can do on there own systems - Arkady<br>
and Rupert and IOL have put in an SC09 tutorial proposal that we could<br>
leverage in this section.<br>
<br>
To all readers of this email:-<br>
If you have read this far, please give us all some feedback. If you have<br>
material you'd like to contribute please say so. If there's a better way,<br>
tell us what you think it is!<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Bill.<br>
<br>
Bill Boas<br>
Executive Director and Vice Chair<br>
OpenFabrics Alliance<br>
510-375-8840<br>
<a href="mailto:Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org">Bill.Boas@openfabrics.org</a><br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Richard Frank [mailto:<a href="mailto:richard.frank@oracle.com">richard.frank@oracle.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:58 PM<br>
To: Andy Grover<br>
Cc: Bill Boas; Sumanta Chatterjee<br>
Subject: Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA<br>
<br>
Andy, I saw your postings to ofa-general on this and I agree it would be<br>
great to have this documentation.<br>
<br>
As OpenFabrics is really about RDMA... we need to make it simpler<br>
for folks to pick up and run with RDMA concepts ...vs.. digging thru the IB<br>
specs and code examples, etc.<br>
<br>
Let's see what Bill Boas thinks...perhaps OFA has a writer on board that<br>
can help us do this..?<br>
<br>
I can also help provide input for a new OFA RDMA tutorial doc..<br>
<br>
Rick<br>
<br>
Andy Grover wrote:<br>
> Hi Rick,<br>
><br>
> Are you around for a brief chat this afternoon? I have a crazy idea that<br>
> involves OFA doing something (or putting up $$) and I wanted to see what<br>
> you thought, since you're Oracle's OFA rep, right?<br>
><br>
> -- Andy<br>
><br>
><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br>Arkady Kanevsky<br>