[ewg] FW: OFED 1.3 Beta release is available

[Thad Omura]

MWG:  We should issue a PR on the release of OFED 1.3 and what we're
enabling in the market.  Any issues?  

Assuming no issues, here is what needs to happen:

- Jeff Scott should work with Tziporet and Gopal on a PR draft to make
sure we clearly explain what the package contains, emphasize all of the
key points with focus on what new markets and applications it enables,
in addition to how integration into the Linux distros is easier, etc.
- We should brief some of the major publications on it as well to get
the word out on its availability, I'd target HPC Wire, EETimes, Byte and
Switch (They've recently seemed more interested in talking about OFA in
their articles), Network World
- Need text to update the website and highlight 1.3's availability 
- Need to decide with EWG (Gopal and Tziporet) when we should push this
to the market - I'd propose early JAN to kick off 2008 for OFA, and we
can announce our developer forum, etc.

OFED is a critical initiative within OFA that we have to offer the
community - let's make sure we get the right visibility for all of the
hard work that has gone into it.

THAD

Thad Omura | VP of Product Marketing | Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
thad at mellanox.com | Tel 408-916-0020 | Cell 408-750-6236
 

______________________________________________ 
From: 	Tziporet Koren  
Sent:	Thursday, November 22, 2007 5:46 PM
To:	ewg at lists.openfabrics.org
Cc:	general at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject:	OFED 1.3 Beta release is available

Hi, 

OFED 1.3 Beta release is available on
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.3/OFED-1.3-beta2.tgz
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info 

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/

The RC1 release is expected on December 5

Tziporet & Vlad 

========================================================================

Release information: 
--------------------
OS support: 
Novell: 
    - SLES10 
    - SLES10 SP1 and up1
Redhat: 
    - Redhat EL4 up4 and up5 
    - Redhat EL5 and up1
kernel.org: 
    - 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc2

Systems: 
    * x86_64 
    * x86 
    * ia64 
    * ppc64*

Main Changes from OFED 1.3-alpha
================================
*	Kernel code based on 2.6.24-rc2
*	New packages:
*	SRP target
*	qperf test from Qlogic
*	ibsim package
*	uDAPL 2.0 library (1.0 & 2.0 are coexist)
*	New OSes Support:
*	RHEL 5 up1
*	SLES10 SP1 up1
*	Compilation issues resolved:
*	Open MPI compilation on SLES10 SP1
*	ibutils compiles on SLES10 PPC64 (64 bits)
*	Apply patches that fix warning of backport patches
*	Prefix is now supported properly
*	RDS implementation for API version 2 was updated form 1.2.5
branch
*	Fix binary compatibility of libibverbs caused by XRC
implementation
*	Uninstall is now working properly
*	ib-bonding update to release 19
*	MPI packages update:
*	mvapich-1.0.0-1625.src.rpm
*	mvapich2-1.0.1-1.src.rpm
*	openmpi-1.2.4-1.src.rpm

Mlx4 driver specific changes:
*	Enable changing the default of HCA resource limits with module
parameters
*	Default number of maximum QPs is now 128K (was 64K)
*	Fixing max_cqe's (not adding an extra cqe)
*	Fix state check in mlx4_qp_modify
*	Sanity check userspace send queue sizes
*	Several bug fixes in XRC


Tasks that should be completed for the beta release:
====================================================
1. 32-bit libraries to be supported on SLES10 SP1 Update1.
2. Fix SDP stability issues
3. IPoIB performance improvements for small messages
4. Fix bugs

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