Hi all. What is the status of this tutorial? The last e-mail I saw about it was at the beginning of May. I'd like to help out. In particular I'm interested in developing a good working set of example codes (starting with those already provided with OFED). Please let me know. Thanks.
-jeff Lloyd Dickman wrote: > > I support the idea of the RDMA tutorial. Beyond the “meat” as > described below, I would encourage the tutorial to include a “how to > program RDMA” section. While OFA Verbs provides a rich set of > mechanisms, it is difficult for the average programmer to get a solid > handle on how to use the capabilities, register memory, … Some > cookbook examples, or perhaps development of several programming > “patterns” can go a long way to having RDMA become a much more > mainstream application programming paradigm. > > > > Lloyd > > > > *From:* [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *arkady kanevsky > *Sent:* Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:27 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* [email protected]; Paul Grun; Paul Gray; OFA Marketing > Working Group; Wayne Augsburger; Andy Grover; Richard Frank; > [email protected]; Jeff Squyres; Mikkel Hagen; > [email protected]; Scott Friedman; [email protected]; > Sumanta Chatterjee; Roland Dreier > *Subject:* [mwg] Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA > > > > Keep me in the loop. > > I am interested to do it also. > > Thanks, > > Arkady > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Bill Boas <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Richard, Andy, > > Thanks for copying me Richard. I had not seen Andy's email on the general > list. > > Figuring out how to get tutorial and other documentation created and > published in the list of things to get done in 2009 for me in my part-time > role as Exec. Dir. > > There is no funding set up for this at the moment but I believe there will > be in about 30 days. > > That's because I'm thinking that we can get funding for this by making it > part of the funding for a new marketing plan for OFA that, with Wayne > Augsburger and Jim Ryan, we are preparing for the OFA Board to vote on at > the next con-call meeting which is on May 20 at 9.00AM PDT. > > Would you be willing to work with me and create a small team from others > within OFA who have the same interest to prepare a description by May > 20 of > what the tutorial would look like, who would contribute to it, how to > get it > "polished up" for web and/or book style publication, what the overall > costs > would be, etc. > > My thoughts, that could be a starting point for the team's work, are > that we > would make the creation a collective effort. > > The tutorial would have several sections for example general intro, > benefits > of RDMA, applicability in HPC and Enterprise, networking background etc. > Members of the Marketing Working Group would be responsible for this. > > The "meat" would be sections for kernel level things (verbs etc.), > then user > space things (verbs etc.), then APIs like MPI, SDP, EDS etc. - each > section > overseen by the technical leaders/maintainers of the code within OFA for > that section (for Example Tom Talpey for NFSoRDMA, or you Richard for RDS) > > Finally the tutorial would have sections about Interoperability > Testing that > OFA/IOL does but also what customers can do on there own systems - Arkady > and Rupert and IOL have put in an SC09 tutorial proposal that we could > leverage in this section. > > To all readers of this email:- > If you have read this far, please give us all some feedback. If you have > material you'd like to contribute please say so. If there's a better way, > tell us what you think it is! > > Thanks, > > Bill. > > Bill Boas > Executive Director and Vice Chair > OpenFabrics Alliance > 510-375-8840 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.openfabrics.org <http://www.openfabrics.org> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Frank [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:58 PM > To: Andy Grover > Cc: Bill Boas; Sumanta Chatterjee > Subject: Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA > > Andy, I saw your postings to ofa-general on this and I agree it would be > great to have this documentation. > > As OpenFabrics is really about RDMA... we need to make it simpler > for folks to pick up and run with RDMA concepts ...vs.. digging thru > the IB > specs and code examples, etc. > > Let's see what Bill Boas thinks...perhaps OFA has a writer on board that > can help us do this..? > > I can also help provide input for a new OFA RDMA tutorial doc.. > > Rick > > Andy Grover wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > > > Are you around for a brief chat this afternoon? I have a crazy idea that > > involves OFA doing something (or putting up $$) and I wanted to see what > > you thought, since you're Oracle's OFA rep, right? > > > > -- Andy > > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > Arkady Kanevsky > _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
