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

Scott Weitzenkamp (sweitzen) sweitzen at cisco.com
Thu May 25 14:32:27 PDT 2006


Sujal, I sent Cisco SQA rc4 test results to the EWG list a few weeks
ago, we only tested RHEL4 U3, thus could not test SRP.
 
We will send out rc5 test results as we have them, we will be testing
IPoIB/SDP/SRP/MPI/uDAPL/RDS on RHEL4 U3 i686/x86_64/ia64/ppc64.
 
Scott Weitzenkamp
SQA and Release Manager
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems
 


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[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Sujal Das
	Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:27 PM
	To: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
	Subject: [openfabrics-ewg] EWG OFED Meeting Minutes: May 25,
2006
	
	

	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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