[openfabrics-ewg] EWG OFED Meeting Minutes: May 25, 2006

[Sujal Das]

Attendees:

 

*	Reini, Bob, Gunner, Ranjit - SilverStorm 
*	Johann, Betsy: QLogic
*	Richard Frank - Oracle 
*	Moni, Gali - Voltaire 
*	Matt - Sandia, 
*	Amit, Sujal, Tziporet - Mellanox

 

No one attended from Cisco.

 

Action Items are marked as [AI].

 

Items for the agenda from release coordination point:

 

Components status:

 

1.	mthca

o       Source frozen.  

o       No open issues.  

o       Ready for GA

2.	ipath

o       Two more patches for RC6.  

o       On target to source freeze with RC6.

3.	IPoIB

o       Source frozen.  

o       No open issues.  

o       Ready for GA

4.	OpenSM 

	a.	Source frozen.  
	b.	No open issues.  
	c.	Ready for GA

5.	OSU MPI

o       Need to run on large clusters

o       QLogic, Mellanox and Cisco are testing.  

o       [AI] Need to know Cisco testing status

o       On target to source freeze with RC6 once large scale cluster
testing is completed.

6.	Open MPI

o       Technology preview in 1.0 release. 

o       [AI]  Jeff to comment on open issues.

7.	SRP

o       Open back-port issues with IA 64. Being worked on.

o       Roland has committed FMR patch.  

o       Do not know status of PPC support. [AI] Cisco to update.

o       [AI] Cisco's SRP testing status.  Gateways, DDN target, LSI
Target?

o       Who is testing DDN Target?  [AI] Cisco please confirm if you
are.

o       SilverStorm SRP Gateway, LSI SRP target being tested.

o       Feature currently not included - dynamically adding/removal of
target, failover (what failover driver to test with, XVM from SGI, MPP
from LSI?).  These features not needed in initial HPC release.

8.	iSER

o       Tested.  Stable.  

o       SST reported an issue that need addressing

o       Support for SLES 10 in RC6. SLES 10 RC2 not committed.

o       Tested on Voltaire gateway and native IB attached target. 

o       On target to source freeze with RC 6 and GA

9.	UDAPL

	*	[AI] Cisco and Intel  to report status of testing with
Intel MPI 
	*	There may be UDAPL fixes required by Intel MPI, are they
in RC5?  [AI] Intel needs to confirm.  
	*	[AI] Intel, please test RC5
	*	Need to freeze source with RC6 and get to GA quality:
[AI]: Cisco or Intel needs to make the call.  
	*	HP MPI uses UDAPL as well - [AI]:Gali will follow up to
verify if HP will test and bless the RC5 UDAPL    

10.	SDP

o       Will be technology preview in 1.0 release.

o       All details of SDP features and limitations are in RC5 release
notes.  

o       Cannot be in frozen in RC6.  GA planned with v1.1 (see Release
Plan below)

o       Who will test RC5: SST, QLogic, Voltaire.  [AI] Cisco, please
confirm you will test.

11.	RDS

o       Will be technology preview in 1.0 release

o       Intel, SilverStorm, QLogic testing the RDS is OFED .  

o       Oracle setting up demo with Cisco with OFED RDS - iWARP and IB
using OFED

o       Oracle Linux group started RDS effort - Oracle will certify this
RDS and not the current RDS.  

o       Oracle would like the Oracle RDS to be brought into OFED in the
long run. Oracle RDS not ready for another 6 months.  

o       Leave current SilverStorm contributed RDS in OFED as technology
preview for now.  Decide future course later.

12.	Tools

	*	Source frozen.  
	*	No open issues.  
	*	Ready for GA

 

 

Release plan:

 

RC6 - 6-Jun

Official 1.0 release - 13-Jun

Copyright and licensing policy discussion:

o        [AI]: Johann will talk to board, resolve open issues before
June 6th.

o        [AI]: Betsy to send clear instructions to developers about what
to include in source - before June 6th.

Release with SDP and SRP as version 1.1 upgrade. Need to decide on date.
Source freeze RC targeted end of June.

o        [AI]: Need intensive and wide-scale testing of SDP by the
community, starting with RC5

 

Testing status: 

 

[AI]: Need update from all companies on testing status + cluster size
used. 

o        Bob from SilverStorm

o        Moni from Voltaire

o        Scott from Cisco

o        Amit from Mellanox

o        Betsy from QLogic

o        Woody from Intel?

Content important.  Not format.  Focus on RC5

 

Release documents:  

 

[AI] Each component owner should send Tziporet release notes, and any
other relevant document.  No later than June 10th.

Responsibilities:

o        Mthca - Tziporet

o        iPath - Betsy

o        IPoIB - Tziporet

o        OpenSM - Eitan Z

o        OSU MAPI - Pasha

o        Open Mpi - Jeff

o        SRP - Cisco or Mellanox

o        iSER - Moni

o        UDAPL - ?? [AI]: Can Intel or net App take this?

o        SDP - MST

o        RDS - Ranjit/Rick

o        Tools - Amit

 

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