[ewg] FW: Sonoma Workshop: OFED improvement request

[Bill Boas]

John, Ira, Ron, Arkady,

 

Please consider this user request as though it was part of the workshop -
Ira you are specifically mentioned in it. If you need more info, Jim Hofmann
will be with us, he is the Technical manager of the Large Data Project from
which this request comes.  Hank Dardy presented this project, remotely, 2
years ago.

 

Thanks. 

 

Bill Boas

VP, Business  Development

System Fabric Works

510-375-8840

bboas at systemfabricworks.com

www.systemfabricworks.com

 

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From: Jeremy Filizetti [mailto:jfilizetti at sms-fed.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:33 AM
To: James B. Hofmann
Cc: ldhardware at largedata.net; Hank Dardy; ldsoftware at largedata.net; Lustre
WG; Kelly Welch; Robert J. Riehl; Carman, Nathan[Ctr]; Rachel Bowers; Chris
Robson; Larry O'Ferrall; Carter Bullard
Subject: Re: Sonoma Workshop: this Sunday to Wednesday

 

I mentioned before that it would be nice to have a much more functional
graphical way to view and monitor the IB fabric.  I think it would still be
very useful to have some sort of tool that utilizes OpenSM performance
manager plugin interface and graphviz (similar to ibdiagui but actually
functional).  The problem we have with ibdiagui is it waits on the output of
ibdiagnet to populate the graph and the GUI is fairly buggy.  On our fabric
it could take 5 minutes for ibdiagnet to finish so you have an unresponsive
GUI application for 5 minutes when you startup or refresh.

Can you find out if any development work is being done on a tool similar to
this?  Ira Weiny has an OpenSM perf manager plugin that integrates with
Skummee (https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/skummeeplugin.html).  Maybe it
would be easy enough to integrate that with Zenoss for the time being.  If
not I think it would be wise for the LD JCTD to invest in some sort of
development on an applicaiton to accomplish this.  Having a GUI with an
overall view with some self diagnostics will be a necessity in an
operational environment.

Jeremy



On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, James B. Hofmann
<jhofmann at cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:

I'm attending the OpenFabrics Alliance workshop next week.  The theme of
this conference seems very much in line with what we have been doing for the
past few years.

See link for agenda. 
Its been suggested that  I should push for getting getting OFED Windows
stack to support IB over IP.  What other priorities do we want to bring to
this gathering of OpenFabrics Alliance?

Hank -- do you have a list of issues I should be investigating and/or
pushing for?

Jim


Daniela George wrote:

Dear James:

Thank you very much for planning to attend the 2009
OpenFabrics Sonoma Workshop starting this Sunday, March 22
and ending Wednesday, March 25.

Wireless will be available in all meeting rooms and wired
ethernet in the guest rooms.  The code you need for the
wireless is: 033DD9.
       Check in will begin at 5:00pm on Sunday.  The opening
keynote presentation will begin at 7:30pm in the Sonoma
Ballroom.  The OpenFabrics Alliance will host an open bar in
the Gallery immediately following the presentation.  We hope
you will be able to join us for this event.

Breakfast is from 7:00am to 8:00am each day in the Stone
Building.  Morning sessions begin at 8:00am in the Sonoma
Ballroom.  Sessions end at 6:45pm Monday and Tuesday and
5:00pm on Wednesday.  
Throughout the Workshop, there are six extra rooms for
private meetings which you may use at no additional charge.
You can reserve any of these rooms at the registration table
in the Foyer subject to availability. 
You can get a copy of the agenda using the link below:
http://www.openfabrics.org/2009SonomaAgenda.pdf

Hard copies of the agenda and a list of attendees will be
available at the registration desk in the Foyer. 
If you have any questions or suggestions please reply to
this message or email Daniela George at
daniela at openfabrics.org.

On behalf of the OpenFabrics Alliance, we welcome you to the
2009 OpenFabrics Sonoma Workshop.   
Jim Ryan, Chair
Bill Boas, Executive Director and Vice Chair
Johann George, Secretary and Treasurer
Wayne Augsburger, Marketing
Jeff Scott, Public Relations
Daniela George, Business Manager

The OpenFabrics Alliance


 

 

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