[ofa-general] RE: [mwg] Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA

[Jeff Becker]

Hi all. What is the status of this tutorial? The last e-mail I saw about
it was at the beginning of May. I'd like to help out. In particular I'm
interested in developing a good working set of example codes (starting
with those already provided with OFED). Please let me know. Thanks.

-jeff

Lloyd Dickman wrote:
>
> I support the idea of the RDMA tutorial.  Beyond the “meat” as
> described below, I would encourage the tutorial to include a “how to
> program RDMA” section.  While OFA Verbs provides a rich set of
> mechanisms, it is difficult for the average programmer to get a solid
> handle on how to use the capabilities, register memory, …  Some
> cookbook examples, or perhaps development of several programming
> “patterns” can go a long way to having RDMA become a much more
> mainstream application programming paradigm.
>
>  
>
> Lloyd
>
>  
>
> *From:* mwg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org
> [mailto:mwg-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] *On Behalf Of *arkady kanevsky
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:27 AM
> *To:* bill.boas at openfabrics.org
> *Cc:* iwg at lists.openfabrics.org; Paul Grun; Paul Gray; OFA Marketing
> Working Group; Wayne Augsburger; Andy Grover; Richard Frank;
> asafs`@voltaire.com; Jeff Squyres; Mikkel Hagen;
> general at lists.openfabrics.org; Scott Friedman; bobs at voltaire.com;
> Sumanta Chatterjee; Roland Dreier
> *Subject:* [mwg] Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA
>
>  
>
> Keep me in the loop.
>
> I am interested to do it also.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arkady
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Bill Boas <Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org
> <mailto:Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org>> 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!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill.
>
> Bill Boas
> Executive Director and Vice Chair
> OpenFabrics Alliance
> 510-375-8840
> Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org <mailto:Bill.Boas at openfabrics.org>
> www.openfabrics.org <http://www.openfabrics.org>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Frank [mailto:richard.frank at oracle.com
> <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
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Arkady Kanevsky
>