Re: [openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] Reminder: OFED 1.2

2007-01-12 Thread Stephen Poole
I would find it very useful. Steve... Steve Poole Chief Scientist / Director of Special Projects Computer Science and Mathematics Division Chief Systems Architect Leadership Computing Facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory 865.574.9008 "Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong

Re: [openib-general] IBM utilizing and testing openIB release 1 RCx

2006-03-25 Thread Stephen Poole
Great news Kevin, and thanks for the support. Steve... At 7:59 PM -0500 3/24/06, Kevin Reilly wrote: We wanted to let others in the OpenIB community know that IBM is using and testing openIB as it's base support for it's IBM HCA as part of linux on Power offerings. We are in the process of

[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 00/22] [RFC] IBM eHCA InfiniBand adapter driver

2006-02-20 Thread Stephen Poole
If every open source company was being sued for $3B I think many companies would be a bit timid. :-) IBM has been working this issue at all levels. It will happen when IBM Legal has figured out all of the necessary paths in order to cover any potential law suits. Unfortunately, the open source

Re: [openib-general] Gen2 test suites

2005-05-18 Thread Stephen Poole
We have been working on the test harness that we discussed at Sonoma. It is not ready for prime time, but it is a large effort within LANL. It is to be used for other regression test suites. As soon as it is "cleaned up" and ready for prime time, it will be made available. Currently the POC for

Re: [openib-general] Gentoo has OpenIB code

2005-01-13 Thread Stephen Poole
Actually fantastic work everyone. Steve... At 7:24 PM -0800 1/12/05, Matt Leininger wrote: Gentoo seems to be the latest distribution that contains the OpenIB code. Gentoo is using the 2.6.11-rc1 as the "development-sources" kernel. It's great to see the OpenIB code trickling down to the Linux di

RE: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2005-01-06 Thread Stephen Poole
Title: RE: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput First, I love Hardware Reliability. 1QP per node, this might be fine for small clusters, but what about larger clusters, where I have an all-to-all communications pattern ? What about say *IF* something like IB was ever designed into a BG/L clas

RE: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput

2005-01-06 Thread Stephen Poole
Title: RE: [openib-general] ip over ib throughtput Have you done any "load" analysis of a 2K .vs. 4K MTU ? Your analogy of having 2G as a total message size is potentially flawed. You seem to assume that 2G is the end-all in size, it is not. What about when you want to (down the road) use IB for