[Openframeworkwg] revisiting the OFWG name

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

I wasn't aware that we were targeting non-network devices.

For full-access PCI device OS bypass, there's already VFIO, right?


On Mar 5, 2014, at 7:44 AM, Christoph Lameter <christoph at lameter.com> wrote:

> Well I think not so much about a fabric but of general direct hardware device access from userspace for multiple purposes.  NVram, SSDs, Coprocessors etc come to mind.
> 
> So
> 
> "Device Direct"
> 
> ?
> 
> Can do more than Network Direct.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquyres at cisco.com> wrote:
> How about "The Libfabric Working Group"?  libfabric has the advantage of being nicely google-able -- i.e., all the results are directly related to this effort.
> 
> "PDIO" does have a nice ring to it, but I agree it is close to "Network Direct", and seems to bring up lots of other sites via googling.
> 
> 
> On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:09 PM, "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > In today's meeting we revisited trying to come up with a name for this workgroup and the work that it is doing.  To that end, I went back through the email archives in hope that we can narrow down and select some option by the next meeting.
> >
> > These are the basic options that have been thrown out so far:
> >
> > Keep current name - OpenFrameworks
> > OpenFabricFrameworks
> > FabricFrameworks
> > OFA Agnostic Process Direct IO API Working Group
> >
> > To this end, I've been using the terms libfabric and fabric interfaces, without hearing any objections (so far), so I will also propose something simple:
> >
> > Open Fabrics Interfaces (Working Group)
> >
> > I do like the term PDIO that Doug came up with, but it immediately makes me think of Network Direct by Microsoft.
> >
> > Please provide comments, support, alternatives, etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sean
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> 
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