[openfabrics-ewg] Draft IBED Positioning Statement

[Aviram Gutman]

Please see inside. 


Regards,
   Aviram

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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

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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.


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.

	<Aviram> There is no support for pre-2.6 kernel. There is
support for older 2.6 kernel, e.g. RH AS EL 4. etc.


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).

	<Aviram> Also SDP.

Q: What is the anticipated release schedule?

	<Aviram> We shoot for early May

Q: What components will be included in IBED and how is this decided?
- Insert here.

	<Aviram>  The following components:

	HCA driver - mthca
	HCA driver - ipath
	Core
	IPoIB
	Diagnostic tools
	Performance tests
	SRP initiator
	iSER initiator
	Opensm
	OSU MPI
	Open MPI
	uDAPL
	SDP
	RDS
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