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

[Tziporet Koren]

Hi All,

 

Regarding OFED documentation - I think we need also a product brief that
the marketing people should prepare.

 

Tziporet

 

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

 

Attendees:

 

o       Reini, Bob, Gunner, Ranjit - SilverStorm 

o       Johann, Betsy: QLogic

o       Richard Frank - Oracle 

o       Moni, Gali - Voltaire 

o       Matt - Sandia, 

o       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

o       [AI] Cisco and Intel  to report status of testing with Intel MPI


o       There may be UDAPL fixes required by Intel MPI, are they in RC5?
[AI] Intel needs to confirm.  

o       [AI] Intel, please test RC5

o       Need to freeze source with RC6 and get to GA quality: [AI]:
Cisco or Intel needs to make the call.  

o       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

o       Source frozen.  

o       No open issues.  

o       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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