[ofiwg] OFI WG - minor naming issue -- asking for comment

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Fri Nov 7 09:45:04 PST 2014


On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 05:33:38PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > I???m sorry for this additional email to the reflector. Based on some of the
> > responses I got, I need to explain how I intend to use the abbreviation
> > ???SFI???. The abbreviation ???SFI??? would follow the use of the term ???Scalable
> > Fabric Interface??? in a press release or whatever, so it???d be clear from
> > that context.
> 
> Libfabric doesn't just jump off the marketing pages?  :)

SFI is also already used by a trade association for the electrical
specificaiton for the physical interface between a chip and a
SFP+/QSFP+ module.

Jason



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