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I am happy to announce the OFED 1.3 GA release.
The release can be found under:
http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.3/release/OFED-1.3.tgz
It will soon be available on the OpenFabrics download page:
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads.htm
This release was produced by a joint effort of all the companies in the
EWG group.
I wish to thank all who contributed its success.
Tziporet
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OFED 1.3 GA Release summary:
============================
The OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) version 1.3 software
package
supports InfiniBand and iWARP fabrics. It is composed of several
software
modules intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an
InfiniBand
subnet or an iWARP network.
OFED package contains the following components:
===============================================
The OFED Distribution package generates RPMs for installing the
following:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, ipath, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator and target, iSER
Initiator, RDS, uDAPL and qlgc_vnic
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- MPI:
- OSU MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- Open MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- OSU MVAPICH2 stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- MPI benchmark tests (OSU benchmarks, Intel MPI benchmarks, Presta)
- Extra packages:
- open-iscsi: open-iscsi initiator with iSER support
- ib-bonding: Bonding driver for IPoIB interface
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the
modules'
LICENSE files)
- Documentation
Third Party Packages
--------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 1.3:
1. Intel MPI, Version 3.0 - Package ID: l_mpi_p_3.0.043
2. HP MPI, Version 2.2.5.1
Main Changes from OFED 1.2.5
============================
General changes:
o Kernel code based on 2.6.24
o Quality of Service support in OpenSM, CMA, IPoIB, SRP, SDP and RDS.
(See documents QoS_in_OFED.txt and QoS_management_in_OpenSM.txt for
details)
o Added Neteffect driver (nes)
o Added SRP target package: Based on Mellanox IBGD SRPT and interfaces
with SCST scsi target
o New verbs to support Extended RC (XRC).
o Updated SA cache Integrated with sa_query module; use of SA events
(GID up/down) to provide additional synchronization; User-space
control for dynamic enable/disable and update
Package and install:
o There is a new install.pl script. See OFED_Installation_Guide.txt
for
more details on the new installation and build procedures.
o User space packages are now in different source RPMs (as opposed to
one source RPM in previous OFED releases).
o The option for a build without installing is no longer supported.
o Added the script make-dist to generate a tarball with kernel sources
for each kernel.
ULPs and utilities:
o See the attached release note for major changes in the ULPs and
utilities.
In addition, each component's release notes includes all changes
from OFED 1.2.5.
Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
=========================================
CPU architectures:
------------------
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
Linux Operating Systems:
------------------------
- RedHat EL4 up4: 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
- RedHat EL4 up5: 2.6.9-55.ELsmp
- RedHat EL4 up6: 2.6.9-67.ELsmp
- RedHat EL5: 2.6.18-8.el5
- RedHat EL5 up1: 2.6.18-53.el5
- Fedora C6: 2.6.18-8.fc6 *
- SLES10: 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
- SLES10 SP1: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
- SLES10 SP1 up1: 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp
- OpenSuSE 10.3: 2.6.22-*-* *
- kernel.org: 2.6.23 and 2.6.24
* OSes that are partially tested
HCAs and RNICs Supported
------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Qlogic and IBM
as
well as iWARP RNICs by NetEffect and Chelsio Communications .
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR and DDR Modes are Supported):
- InfiniHost (fw-23108 Rev 3.5.000)
- InfiniHost III Ex (MemFree: fw-25218 Rev 5.3.000
with memory: fw-25208 Rev 4.8.200)
- InfiniHost III Lx (fw-25204 Rev 1.2.000)
- ConnectX IB (fw-25408 Rev 2.3.000)
o Qlogic HCAs:
- QHT6040 (PathScale InfiniPath HT-460)
- QHT6140 (PathScale InfiniPath HT-465)
- QLE6140 (PathScale InfiniPath PE-880)
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o NetEffect RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
Infiniband Switches Supported
-----------------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the
following
companies:
- Cisco
- Voltaire
- Qlogic
- Flextronics
Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
Version 1.3
Release Notes
February 2008
===============================================================================
Table of Contents
===============================================================================
1. Overview, which includes:
- OFED Distribution Rev 1.3 Contents
- Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
- Supported HCA and RNIC Adapter Cards and Firmware Versions
- Tested Switch Platforms
- Third party Test Packages
- OFED sources
2. Main Changes from OFED 1.2.5
3. Fixed Bugs
4. Known Issues
===============================================================================
1. Overview
===============================================================================
These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
release 1.3 The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand
subnet or iWARP network.
Note: If you plan to upgrade the OFED package on your cluster, please upgrade
all of its nodes to this new version.
1.1 OFED 1.3 Contents
-----------------------
The OFED package contains the following components:
- OpenFabrics core and ULPs:
- IB HCA drivers (mthca, mlx4, ipath, ehca)
- iWARP RNIC driver (cxgb3, nes)
- core
- Upper Layer Protocols: IPoIB, SDP, SRP Initiator and target, iSER
Initiator, RDS, uDAPL and qlgc_vnic
- OpenFabrics utilities:
- OpenSM (OSM): InfiniBand Subnet Manager
- Diagnostic tools
- Performance tests
- MPI:
- OSU MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- Open MPI stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- OSU MVAPICH2 stack supporting the InfiniBand and iWARP interface
- MPI benchmark tests (OSU benchmarks, Intel MPI benchmarks, Presta)
- Extra packages:
- open-iscsi: open-iscsi initiator with iSER support
- ib-bonding: Bonding driver for IPoIB interface
- Sources of all software modules (under conditions mentioned in the modules'
LICENSE files)
- Documentation
Notes:
1. SRP target is of Beta quality.
2. All other OFED components are of production quality.
3. See release notes for each package in the docs directory.
4. Any Topspin copyright belongs to Cisco Systems, Inc.
1.2 Supported Platforms and Operating Systems
---------------------------------------------
o CPU architectures:
- x86_64
- x86
- ppc64
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- RedHat EL4 up4: 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
- RedHat EL4 up5: 2.6.9-55.ELsmp
- RedHat EL4 up6: 2.6.9-67.ELsmp
- RedHat EL5: 2.6.18-8.el5
- RedHat EL5 up1: 2.6.18-53.el5
- Fedora C6: 2.6.18-8.fc6 *
- SLES10: 2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
- SLES10 SP1: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
- SLES10 SP1 up1: 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp
- OpenSuSE 10.3: 2.6.22-*-* *
- kernel.org: 2.6.23 and 2.6.24
* OSes that are partially tested
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
----------------------------
This release supports IB HCAs by Mellanox Technologies, Qlogic and IBM as
well as iWARP RNICs by Chelsio Communications.
o Mellanox Technologies HCAs (SDR and DDR Modes are Supported):
- InfiniHost (fw-23108 Rev 3.5.000)
- InfiniHost III Ex (MemFree: fw-25218 Rev 5.3.000
with memory: fw-25208 Rev 4.8.200)
- InfiniHost III Lx (fw-25204 Rev 1.2.000)
- ConnectX IB (fw-25408 Rev 2.3.000)
For official firmware versions please see:
http://www.mellanox.com/support/firmware_table.php
o Qlogic HCAs:
- QHT6040 (PathScale InfiniPath HT-460)
- QHT6140 (PathScale InfiniPath HT-465)
- QLE6140 (PathScale InfiniPath PE-880)
o IBM HCAs:
- GX Dual-port SDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port SDR 12x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 4x IB HCA
- GX Dual-port DDR 12x IB HCA
o Chelsio RNICs:
- S310/S320 10GbE Storage Accelerators
- R310/R320 10GbE iWARP Adapters
o NetEffect RNICs:
- NE020 10Gb iWARP Adapter
1.4 Switches Supported
----------------------
This release was tested with switches and gateways provided by the following
companies:
- Cisco
- Voltaire
- Qlogic
- Flextronics
1.5 Third Party Packages
------------------------
The following third party packages have been tested with OFED 1.3:
1. Intel MPI, Version 3.0 - Package ID: l_mpi_p_3.0.043
2. HP-MPI 2.2.5.1 (without XRC support)
3. HP-MPI 2.2.7 (with XRC support)
1.6 OFED Sources
----------------
All sources are located under git://git.openfabrics.org/
Kernel sources: git://git.openfabrics.org/ofed_1_3/linux-2.6.git ofed_kernel
User level Sources are located in all git trees as written in the BUILD_ID
The kernel sources are based on Linux 2.6.24 mainline kernel. Its patches
are included in the OFED sources directory.
For details see HOWTO.build_ofed.
===============================================================================
2. Main Changes from OFED 1.2.5
===============================================================================
Note: For details regarding the various changes, please see the release notes
for each package in the docs directory.
2.1 General changes
o Kernel code based on 2.6.24
o Quality of Service support in OpenSM, CMA, IPoIB, SRP, SDP and RDS.
o Added Neteffect driver (nes)
o Added SRP target package: Based on Mellanox IBGD SRPT and interfaces
with SCST scsi target
o New verbs to support Extended RC (XRC).
o Updated SA cache Integrated with sa_query module; use of SA events
(GID up/down) to provide additional synchronization; User-space
control for dynamic enable/disable and update
2.2 Package and install
o There is a new install script. See OFED_Installation_Guide.txt for
more details on the new installation and build procedures.
o User space packages are now in different source RPMs (as opposed to
one source RPM in previous OFED releases).
o The option for a build without installing is not supported any more.
o Added the script make-dist to generate tarball with kernel sources
for each kernel.
2.3 IPoIB
o Stateless offloads - for Datagram mode
o IGMP for user-space multicast IB
o NAPI is enabled default
o High availability is supported via the bonding module only (ipoib
tool scripts have been removed)
2.4 SDP
o Keep-alive
o Asynch IO
o Send Zero Copy (enabled for 64K and above sends by default)
2.5 qlgc_vnic
o Update for PathScale HCA
2.6 RDS
o RDMA API (using FMRs) - RDS API version 3
o GA quality with Oracle 11
2.7 uDAPL
o Add DAT 2.0 API run-time library and development support.
uDAPL 2.0 will include IB extensions for IB rdma write with immediate
data and IB atomic operations.
o Both uDAPL 1.2 and 2.0 packages are provided and co-exist
2.9 iSER
o open-iscsi is based on r865.12.
2.9 Management
o OpenSM
- Quality of Service manager
- QoS implementation of the IBTA annex
- QoS policy parser and support for SA (PR, MPR)
- Scalability/stability improvements
- Performance improvements of the routing algorithms (min-hops,
up/down, lash)
- Optimized port and switch tables update policy
- "Native" daemon mode
o Performance manager
- Fetches and stores performance counters
- OpenSM integrated, work in any OpenSM state (standby, disabled)
- Plug-in interface
o Diagnostic tools enhancements
o IBSIM: IB fabric simulator (new)
- Emulates user_mad layer
- useful for OpenSM and management tools testing
2.10 MPI:
a. OSU MVAPICH 1.0
- Asynchronous progress
- Flexible message coalescing
- APM support
- Enhanced mpirun_rsh for scalable launching
- UD-based design
- Optimized and tuned collectives
- Support for ConnectX
- Support for QLogic/PSM
b. Open MPI 1.2.5
- ConnectX support
c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.0
- Message Coalescing
- Hot-spot avoidance
- Application-initiated systems-level check-pointing
- APM support
- Multi-rail support for iWARP
- On-demand connection management for iWARP and uDAPL
- RDMA Read
- Blocking
===============================================================================
3. Fixed Bugs
===============================================================================
Note: For details regarding the various fixed bugs, please see the
release notes for each component in the docs directory.
===============================================================================
4. Known Issues
===============================================================================
The following is a list of general limitations and known issues of the various
components of the OFED 1.3 release.
1. When upgrading from an earlier OFED version, the installation script does not
stop the earlier OFED version prior to uninstalling it.
Workaround: Stop the old OFED stack (/etc/init.d/openibd stop) before
upgrading to OFED 1.3.
2. Memory registration by the user is limited according to administrator
setting. See "Pinning (Locking) User Memory Pages" in OFED_tips.txt for
system configuration.
3. Fork support from kernel 2.6.12 and above is available provided
that applications do not use threads. The fork() is supported as long
as the parent process does not run before the child exits or calls exec().
The former can be achieved by calling wait(childpid), and the latter can be
achieved by application specific means. The Posix system() call is
supported.
4. The ipath driver is supported only on 64-bit platforms.
5. When installing OFED on OpenSuse or Ubuntu one should use the
--without-depcheck option of the install.pl script
Note: See the release notes of each component for additional issues.
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