[Openib-windows] RE: Technical content of Sonoma Workshop Feb 5-8

[Bob Woodruff]

Head Bubba wrote,

>Since we will have both Mellanox and PathScale for a roundtable session, we

>should also add any enhancements we need to future HCA and the firmware as
well >to the discussion - from a little SDP Proof of Concept we did at CSFB,
we ended >up needing a firmware upgrade

Yes. updates from the hardware vendors and feedback from the user community
on what is needed in the hardware/firmware would be great.

>As for SDP... 	
>At the roundtable we did not go into the gory details of the SDP Proof Of 
>Concept we did at CSFB with Mellanox in which we could dynamically change 
>virtual lane being used, so I think at this we should get Mellanox to go 
>over the details with us to get this something done with SDP in OpenIB to
have 
>the real implementation it needs (for those not having the details, contact

>Nimrod).A better implementation of SDP is needed.  This is a good first
step to 
>get off of TCP/IP without code changes, but this has
>also been problematic in our experience.  Additionally, it needs to be code
better to deliver at near native performance /// 
>ie use SDP to eliminate TCP/IP issues, so IPoIB is not viable for us

I think that the SDP discussion can be split into 2 areas, what is needed
short term to get the code into shape for submission upstream, and 
second, what features are needed in a future 2.0 release. Feedback from
both the maintainers and the user community would be helpful here.

>As for RDS, we should all see who has it aside from Bubba which everyone
knows 
>about, and whether or not we can get an end-user experience discussed

I think the folks from Oracle and Silverstorm have the most to say about
RDS, so 
perhaps they could present a session on this. Richard Frank/Ranjit Pandit ?

>We also would like to virtualize everything... the server, the desktop, the

>fabric, the storage, etc... to create a Virtual Resource Market (VRM)

Good one. We should have a session on virtualization, what has been
done so far and what is needed. I think that Mellanox has already done
some work on this. Perhaps they could lead a session on this ?

woody