[Ofa_boardplus] Gold Deck - suggesting one more revision.

Hefty, Sean sean.hefty at intel.com
Fri Jul 20 16:26:00 PDT 2018


> *	 The OFA is actively developing and supporting the following
> fabric technologies:
> 
> 	*	Kernel modules to support kernel level applications:

Kernel level applications may rely on user space components, particularly for management.  You can consider dropping kernel modules from the description or go more generic with something like infrastructure.


> 		*	Storage technologies (Lustreā„¢, SRP, NVMoF, etc)
> 		*	Legacy communication interfaces (Sockets)
> 
> 	*	User mode APIs based on:
> 
> 		*	Verbs supporting InfiniBand-style networks


The term transport seems like a slightly better fit here than networks.


> 		*	OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) providing a higher
> level semantic that is network independent
> 
> 	*	Emerging usages and future networks
> 
> 		*	Remote Persistent Memory



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