[openib-general] Announcing the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution

[Bob Woodruff]

> Q: Why is OFED required?

>- Enterprise customers will have solution-level requirements that are
>outside the scope of the 1.0 release, such as the distribution of MPI
>stacks, support for pre-2.6.16 kernels, etc.  The goal of OFED is to
>address this need.  Without OFED, each InfiniBand vendor would create
>their own distribution of OpenFabrics to accomplish this goal, and may
>not be interoperable.

What if a customer wants to use one of the comercially available MPIs,
such as Intel MPI or HP MPI, will OFED be validating that those MPIs will
work with the OFED distribution ?

woody