[ofa-general] OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available

[Tziporet Koren]

Hi, 

OFED 1.3 Alpha release is available on
http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.3/release/
File: OFED-1.3-alpha2.tgz 
To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info 

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/

The beta release is expected on 29 October

Tziporet & Vlad 

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Release information: 
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OS support: 
Novell: 
    - SLES10 
    - SLES10 SP1
Redhat: 
    - Redhat EL4 up4 and up5 
    - Redhat EL5 
kernel.org: 
    - 2.6.23 

Note: Fedora C6 and Open SUSE 10.2 and Redhat EL4 up3 are not part of
the 
official list. We keep the backport patches for these OSes and make sure

OFED compile and loaded properly but will not do full QA cycle.

Systems: 
    * x86_64 
    * x86 
    * ia64 
    * ppc64*

*Note: On PPC64 installation fails on the packages: ibutils, mvapich2, 
       MPI tests over Open MPI.


Main Changes from OFED 1.2.5
============================
1. General changes
   o Kernel code based on 2.6.23
   o Quality of Service support in OpenSM, CMA, IPoIB, SRP
   o Added Neteffect driver (nes)

2. Package and install
   o There is a new install script. See OFED_Installation_Guide.txt for
     more details on the new installation and build procedures.
         Note: There is an easy way to install in one command line 
               without a conf file, and without the interactive mode.
		   Example:  ./install.pl --all --prefix /usr/local 
   o User space packages are now in different source RPMs (as opposed to
     one source RPM in previous OFED releases).
   o The option for a build without installing is not supported any
more.
   o Added an option to generate tarball with kernel sources for each
     kernel.

3. IPoIB
   o Stateless offloads
   o IGMP for user-space multicast IB
   o NAPI is enabled default
   o High availability is supported via the bonding module only (removed
     ipoib tool scripts)

4. SDP - these are not yet in the alpha release
   o Keep-alive
   o Asynch IO
   o Send Zero Copy

5. iSER
   o ???

6. qlgc_vnic
   o Update for PathScale HCA

7. RDS
   o RDMA API (using FMRs) - under work

8. uDAPL - these are not yet in the alpha release
   o Add DAT 2.0 API run-time library and development support.
     uDAPL 2.0 will include IB extensions for IB rdma write with
immediate
     data and IB atomic operations.
   o Both uDAPL 1.2 and 2.0 packages will be provided and will co-exist

9. Libraries
   a. libibverbs 1.1.1
      o Added Extended RC transport type
   b. librdmacm (uCMA) 1.0.3

10. OSM
    o More routing performance improvements
    o Even more speedups
    o Better packaging/installation
    o "Native" daemon mode
    o Performance management
    o Quality of Service manager: Based on IBTA annex

11. Management
    o Multiple partitions

12. MPI:
    a. OSU MVAPICH
       o Version is 0.9.9 - same as in 1.2.5 - to be replaced later
    b. Open MPI
       o Version is 1.2.2-1 - same as in 1.2.5 - to be replaced later
    c. OSU MVAPICH2
       o Version was updated to 1.0-1.
 


Tasks that should be completed for the beta release:
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1. Integrate all SDP features
2. Complete RDS work
3. Apply patches that fix warning of backport patches
4. Fix compilation problems on PPC
5. Add qperf test from Qlogic
6. Rebase kernel code on 2.6.24 rc1 (depending it's availability)
7. Support RHEL 5 up1
8. SPEC files should be part of each user space package