[Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup

[Davis, Arlin R]

Yes, we do have to provide support for Intel MPI and Xeon Phi Co-Processor for a couple more years. IBM DB2 PureScale is also a consumer of DAPL, mainly because of the OS agnostic RDMA interfaces.

-arlin

> 
> There is not much addition work (other than bug fixes) is being done on
> DAPL, but it is still used by the shipping version of Intel MPI, so we still need
> the repo for now.
> 
> Longer term, the next version of Intel MPI for 2019 is based on OFI and I am
> not sure if anything else is actually using DAPL, so longer term, Jason is right
> that it will stop being relevant in a couple of years.
> 
> +Arlin, DAPL maintainer in case he wants to comment.
> 
> Woody
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ofa_boardplus [mailto:ofa_boardplus-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org]
> On Behalf Of Jason Gunthorpe
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 12:24 PM
> To: Coulter, Susan K <skc at lanl.gov>
> Cc: ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org,
> <ofa_boardplus at lists.openfabrics.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ofa_boardplus] OFA Repo and Maintainer List cleanup
> 
> libvmw_pvrdma is already part of rdma-core these days
> 
> libscif is a 'verbs provider' and is incompatible with rdma-core, so it is
> basically useless for OFA. Recommend to remove it too.
> 
> That leaves only two things.. DAPL is basically a dead project superceeded by
> libfabric. It will stop being relavent in two years I suspect.
> 
> The same excercies should be done on the windows side. AFAIK 'OFED for
> Windows' and related is completely dead and should be removed too.
> 
> Jason
> 
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 07:11:07PM +0000, Coulter, Susan K wrote:
> >    Folks,
> >    This has been a long time coming … we need to remove old, obsolete
> >    cruft from the OFA “repo”.
> >    Please review the attached document - it has 2 sections.
> >    1.  A list of the directories available from the "OpenFabrics Software”
> >    page.
> >    That page is a quick link from the OFA home page, so easy to get to and
> >    therefore prone to confuse.
> >    I am recommending all but 3 of those directories should be removed.
> >    If we can find a better place for the 3 that seem current - that would
> >    be great.
> >    ( since there is no “OpenFabrics Software” - and that whole page needs
> >    a major upgrade )
> >    2.  A list of Maintainers.
> >    We should either review and insure correctness of this list - or remove
> >    it entirely.
> >    Any feedback is appreciated.
> >    Thanx.
> >
> >    ================================
> >    Susan Coulter
> >    LANL / USRC / HPC-DES
> >    Network Lead
> >    (505) 412-6525
> >    Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
> >    ================================
> 
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