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<p class="MsoNormal">ORNL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">HP<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Broadcom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Soft-forge<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">LANL <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mellanox<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Intel <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oracle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We discussed the nomination of Liran Liss (Mellanox) and Pavel Shamis (ORNL) to be OFV-WG co-chairs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Voting results:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ORNL - Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">HP - Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Broadcom - Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Soft-forge - Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">LANL - Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mellanox - Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Intel - Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oracle – Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unisys – Yes (Bill Weber not present at the meeting, voted via email)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As a result, Liran and Pasha were elected to be the co-chairs of OFV-WG<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Liran and Pavel need to be on the next board meeting to present the working group status and activities<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Technical discussion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Liran’s presentation: "Accelerated Verbs"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The presentation overviews new ideas and concepts for extension of the existing VERBS interface with "families" of communication<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">interfaces, where accelerated (or HPC family) is an example of such extension.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Discussion notes: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* It can be useful to agree on a minimum of functionality such that providers don't have all the "accelerators" may fall back to the default verbs call. This will simplify application development and maintenance
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<p class="MsoNormal">* The group agree to follow-up this discussion next call.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Intel asked if ofvwg would send patches<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">o Liran responded that currently the code development would proceed in the same practices by which Verbs were developed until now<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Pasha mentioned that typed interfaces could introduce savings in memory footprint<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">o Liran answered that we would need to weigh those against the semantics and debuggability of the interface<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">o We will have more intuition with real code in the future<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Comments welcome if I missed anything<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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Gilad Shainer <o:p></o:p></p>
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Vice President, Marketing <br>
Mellanox Technologies <br>
350 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 100, Sunnyvale CA, 94085<br>
Office: 408-916-0048, Mobile: 408-421-0048, Fax: 408-585-0348 <o:p></o:p></p>
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