[openib-general] openMPI for 2.6.17.10 kernel

[Jeff Squyres]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Tom Tucker wrote:

>> I'd like to have some iWARP vendors come in to OMPI and help fix
>> this.  :-)

I should re-phrase my above statement: I would *love* to have some  
iWARP vendors come into Open MPI.  :-)

> Actually, I think that is a fantastic idea. I'm fairly sure that these
> guys are up to their collective eyeballs in work right now, but it
> certainly would give them visibility into the beast that their  
> customer
> prefers and hopefully a better product (both HBA and OpenMPI) for  
> their
> effort.
>
> How might they go about working with OpenMPI?

I actually spent a good amount of time talking to NetEffect at SC and  
we have a con call setup for next week to discuss exactly these  
issues.  Even just getting testing resources would be good so that we  
can say that OMPI is certified on various iWARP hardware, etc.

I spent a little time talking to Chelsio at SC, but haven't heard  
anything back from them yet.  Broadcomm is "interested" in Open MPI  
but won't make forward-looking statements (I've talked to Kaitlyn  
[not sure I spelled that right...] quite a bit).

The whole point of the OMPI project is to get the vendors involved,  
so I really do want them to be included.  Part of the benefit of  
joining a larger MPI project is that you don't have to do all the  
work yourself -- quite helpful for all of us who don't want to  
shoulder the responsibility for being the sole maintainers for a  
huge, complex code base.

Who else should I be talking to in the iWARP community?  (I confess  
to being fairly unfamiliar with the iWARP community...)

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems