[openib-general] uverbs and OSU MPI/MPI in general?
Roland Dreier
roland at topspin.com
Fri Apr 1 11:39:59 PST 2005
Peter> Hi All, How does gen2's uverbs compare to VAPI? Is it meant
Peter> to be the same API? Should OSU's MPI run on top of this or
Peter> is there some other MPI implementation that will be able to
Peter> run 'natively' over IB?
The basic functionality is the same but the API is different. For
example completion events are handled in a different way that allows
better performance.
None of the current MPI implementations that use IB will run
unmodified, but everyone (including OSU) is porting to the new API.
- R.
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