[ofa-general] Re: Has anyone tried running RDS over 10GE / IWARP NICs ?

[Steve Wise]

Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com> wrote:
>> I think RDS might be getting confused because the 10GbE rnic shows up as a
>> dumb NIC hooked into the native TCP stack -and- an rdma device.
> 
>> Jon Mason will be working to enable RDS soon on the chelsio device. He'll
>> feed back the changes needed, if any, to RDS.  Stay tuned.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I understand that a similar work has been done at least to some extent
> with open MPI, and I will be
> very happy to hear the lessons learned. Did you manage to have the
> same (say point to point)
> open mpi  "transport"  design/code work over rdma-cm over both IB and iWARP?
> 

Definitely.  We're running over rdma-cm over mthca and cxgb3 on 2 nodes 
today.  8 nodes over cxgb3.  We're working out the details now.

> Can someone from OGC or Chelsio drive a BOF on that in Sonoma?
> 
> If not, can some notes be sent to the list? I say lets learn from what
> you did so far...


We won't be in Sonoma, but perhaps Jon can email some info to the list 
on what we've done to-date for open mpi.

Steve.