[openib-general] Infinipath support in OpenIB

[Sean Hefty]

Paul Baxter wrote:
> I read with interest the PR blurb at 
> http://supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=8740
> regarding InfiniPath's very low latencies and high throughput for MPI 
> even at very modest message sizes.
> 
> The article states: 'InfiniPath will also support the OpenIB software 
> stack providing full InfiniBand compliance.'
> 
> Is this something the OpenIB software developers are working on and 
> something that can be commented on in public, or should I speculate/ask 
> Pathscale?

I would think that as long as they provide an HCA driver that registers with 
  the core layer and exposes the proper APIs, they would be able to run with 
the openib stack.  I do not know if their code is open source however.

- Sean