[ewg] [ANNOUNCE] OFED-3.5-MIC-alpha1 is available

[Coffman, Jerrie L]

I am pleased to announce the availability of OFED-3.5-MIC-alpha1 at:
https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/ofed-3.5-mic/OFED-3.5-MIC-alpha1.tgz

OFED-3.5-MIC is a branch release of OFED-3.5 that contains host-side extensions for
Intel(R) Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel(R) MIC Architecture).

This release requires the Intel(R) Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel(R) MPSS) to be
installed on your machine.  The Intel(R) MPSS package contains header files and module
symbols that are required to build OFED-3.5-MIC source RPMs and run the software.
Intel(R) MPSS can be downloaded from http://software.intel.com/mic-developer.

This is an alpha release provided for early testing.  It has been developed to run with the
mpss_gold_update_3 package.

Changes from OFED-3.5 include:
- a software-based RDMA device driver and library that allows communication within a box
- a driver and daemon to provide access to HCAs from Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) coprocessors
- ib-core changes to allow context-based udata and umem management
- updated the DAPL library and removed the deprecated compat-dapl
- build modifications to support RHEL 6.4
- script and documentation changes
- a minor perftest bug fix

Regards,
-jerrie