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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Fab (Silverstorm) and Gilad (Mellanox) have worked on an agenda for the windows sessions. There are 5 sessions availabe and here is the suggestion for the first 4:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Windows general update</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Covering the last year development under OpenIB. What is the status of each of the components, work in progress and future plans. OpenIB release and schedule, WHQL certification etc. Open discussion on item that are missing.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Presenters - Fab (Silverstorm) and Gilad (Mellanox)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. SDP</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) enables sockets-based applications to transparently utilize the InfiniBand RDMA and protocol offload capabilities. CPU utilization is significantly reduced and superior bandwidth can be achieved. The SDP implementation complies with the InfiniBand standard and is interoperable with other operating systems. The session introduces the protocol and presents OpenIB (open source development community) implementation for SDP in the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Presenters: Gilad (Mellanox) and TBD</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. MemFree technology</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MemFree technology reduce the need of local attached memory. This presentation will cover the new host memory structure (ICM), and the MemFree concept. In order to support MemFree technology, major changes have been done in the low level driver. The session will cover the changes and also performance analysis for comparing to the Mem driver.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Presenters: TBD</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4. Microsoft presentation</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Microsoft view on the windows development, Windows CCS, Longhorn plans and WHQL</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Presenter: Eric (Microsoft) </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">5. TBD</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please send your comments/feedback and also suggestions for the 5th session.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Gilad.</FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Gilad Shainer</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Technical Marketing</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mellanox Technologies</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Work: 408-916-0048</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mobile: 408-421-0048</FONT><BR>
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