[ofa-general] RE: RDMA tutorial and OFA

[Gus Correa]

Bill Boas wrote:
> Richard, Andy,
> 
> Thanks for copying me Richard. I had not seen Andy's email on the general
> list.
> 
> Figuring out how to get tutorial and other documentation created and
> published in the list of things to get done in 2009 for me in my part-time
> role as Exec. Dir.
> 
> There is no funding set up for this at the moment but I believe there will
> be in about 30 days.
> 
> That's because I'm thinking that we can get funding for this by making it
> part of the funding for a new marketing plan for OFA that, with Wayne
> Augsburger and Jim Ryan, we are preparing for the OFA Board to vote on at
> the next con-call meeting which is on May 20 at 9.00AM PDT.
> 
> Would you be willing to work with me and create a small team from others
> within OFA who have the same interest to prepare a description by May 20 of
> what the tutorial would look like, who would contribute to it, how to get it
> "polished up" for web and/or book style publication, what the overall costs
> would be, etc.
> 
> My thoughts, that could be a starting point for the team's work, are that we
> would make the creation a collective effort.
> 
> The tutorial would have several sections for example general intro, benefits
> of RDMA, applicability in HPC and Enterprise, networking background etc.
> Members of the Marketing Working Group would be responsible for this.
> 
> The "meat" would be sections for kernel level things (verbs etc.), then user
> space things (verbs etc.), then APIs like MPI, SDP, EDS etc. - each section
> overseen by the technical leaders/maintainers of the code within OFA for
> that section (for Example Tom Talpey for NFSoRDMA, or you Richard for RDS)
> 
> Finally the tutorial would have sections about Interoperability Testing that
> OFA/IOL does but also what customers can do on there own systems - Arkady
> and Rupert and IOL have put in an SC09 tutorial proposal that we could
> leverage in this section.
> 
> To all readers of this email:-
> If you have read this far, please give us all some feedback. If you have
> material you'd like to contribute please say so. If there's a better way,
> tell us what you think it is!
> 

Hi All

For newbies to IB/RDMA/OFA like me,
a good set of FAQs would be helpful.
(The OpenMPI FAQs are a good example
of informal but informative documentation to look at.)

Maybe an FAQ list can be put together and made available with less
effort or funding, and hopefully right away,
while the full tutorial is being worked on.

Thank you.
Gus Correa.
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Gustavo Correa
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia University
Palisades, NY, 10964-8000 - USA
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> Thanks,
> 
> Bill. 
> 
> Bill Boas
> Executive Director and Vice Chair
> OpenFabrics Alliance
> 510-375-8840
> Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org
> www.openfabrics.org
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Frank [mailto:richard.frank at oracle.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:58 PM
> To: Andy Grover
> Cc: Bill Boas; Sumanta Chatterjee
> Subject: Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA
> 
> Andy, I saw your postings to ofa-general on this and I agree it would be
> great to have this documentation.
> 
> As OpenFabrics is really about RDMA... we need to make it simpler
> for folks to pick up and run with RDMA concepts ...vs.. digging thru the IB
> specs and code examples, etc.
> 
> Let's see what Bill Boas thinks...perhaps OFA has a writer on board that
> can help us do this..?
> 
> I can also help provide input for a new OFA RDMA tutorial doc..
> 
> Rick
> 
> Andy Grover wrote:
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> Are you around for a brief chat this afternoon? I have a crazy idea that
>> involves OFA doing something (or putting up $$) and I wanted to see what
>> you thought, since you're Oracle's OFA rep, right?
>>
>> -- Andy
>>
>>   
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