Josh and I are talking off-list with specific regards to his customers before I delete the mvapi btl.
-jms Sent from my PDA -----Original Message----- From: Josh Aune [mailto:lu...@lnxi.com] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 05:15 PM Eastern Standard Time To: Open MPI Developers Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: delete mvapi BTL for v1.3 How long will the 1.2 series be maintained? This has been giving some of our customers a bit of heart burn, but it can also be used to help push through the OFED upgrades on the clusters (a good thing). Josh On 10/11/07, Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: > Reminder -- this RFC expires tonight. > > Speak now or forever hold your peace... > > > On Oct 5, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > > > WHAT: Remove the mvapi BTL for the v1.3 release. > > > > WHY: None of the IB vendors want to maintain it anymore; our future > > is OFED. If someone still has mvapi IB drivers, they can use the > > OMPI v1.2 series. > > > > WHERE: svn rm ompi/mca/btl/mvapi > > > > WHEN: Before the v1.3 release. > > > > TIMEOUT: COB, Thurs, Oct 11, 2007 > > > > ----- > > > > None of the IB vendors are interested in maintaining the "mvapi" BTL > > anymore. Indeed, none of us have updated it with any of the new/ > > interesting/better performance features that went into the openib BTL > > over the past year (or more). Additionally, some changes may be > > coming in the OMPI infrastructure that would *require* some revamping > > in the mvapi BTL -- and no one of Cisco, Voltaire, Mellanox is > > willing to do it. > > > > So we'd like to ditch the mvapi BTL starting with v1.3 and have the > > official guidance be that if you have mvapi, you need to use the OMPI > > v1.2 series (i.e., remove this from the SVN trunk in the Very Near > > Future). > > > > -- > > Jeff Squyres > > Cisco Systems > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list > > de...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > Cisco Systems > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
