[openfabrics-ewg] Draft IBED Positioning Statement

[Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen)]

Shawn, do you really mean "support for a pre-2.6 kernel", or do you mean
pre-2.6.16? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org 
> [mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of 
> Shawn Hansen (shahanse)
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:19 PM
> To: Openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
> Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] Draft IBED Positioning Statement
> 
> All,
> 
> Here is a draft message for submission to openib-general 
> describing IBED
> and how it relates to the OpenFabrics release. It is written in a Q&A
> format.
> 
> Please review, and let's quickly drive to consensus on this. We will
> discuss this in detail on the next EWG conference call, which needs to
> be held before the next board meeting.
> 
> --Shawn
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> All,
> 
> We are pleased to announce the creation of the InfiniBand Enterprise
> Distribution (IBED), under the direction of the OpenFabrics Enterprise
> Working Group.
> 
> IBED is a distribution of InfiniBand software that includes the
> OpenFabrics 1.0 release, along with other additional software 
> outside of
> the scope of the release, such as MPI.
> 
> Frequently Asked Questions
> --------------------------
> Q: What is the Enterprise Working Group?
> The EWG is a group of hardware vendors that will sell 
> products based on
> OpenFabrics.  The purpose of this group is to coordinate how 
> to provide
> a single commercially supportable distribution of OpenFabrics software
> to their customers.
> 
> Q: Why is IBED required?
> - Enterprise customers will have solution-level requirements that are
> outside the scope of the 1.0 release, such as the distribution of MPI
> stacks, support for a pre-2.6 kernel releases, etc.  The goal 
> of IBED is
> to address this need.  Without IBED, each InfiniBand vendor 
> would create
> their own distribution of OpenFabrics to accomplish this goal.
> 
> Q: Does IBED compete with the OpenFabrics release?
> - No, there is only one OpenFabrics release.  IBED is a distribution
> that includes the OpenFabrics 1.0 release. The OpenFabrics 1.0 release
> and IBED share the same user-level code (libraries, management
> utilities, etc.)  The code for both is taken from the 1.0 branch. 
> 
> Q: Is IBED development happening in the open?
> - Yes, IBED uses the OpenFabrics bugzilla for bug reporting, and all
> discussions can be viewed on the Enterprise Working Group 
> mailing list.
> 
> Q: How does IBED differ from the OpenFabrics release?
> - The OpenFabrics release contains only user-level code, 
> while the IBED
> distribution also adds kernel modules that are not part of the Linux
> kernel (like iSER and RDS).
> - IBED will include two MPI packages that are not part of 
> Open Fabrics:
> OSU MPI and Open MPI.
> - IBED is packaged for end-user installation.
> - IBED supports distribution with older kernels (e.g. Redhat EL4 up2)
> 
> Q: What is the software release process for IBED and how does 
> it relate
> to the OpenFabrics release?
> - Insert here.
> 
> Q: What is the anticipated release schedule?
> - Insert date here.
> 
> Q: What components will be included in IBED and how is this decided?
> - Insert here.
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