[Speakers] InfiniBand and Linux

[stevegt@TerraLuna.Org]

Hi Kevin!

I'd be interested in seeing this -- I'm extremely interested in
InfiniBand myself.  

We'd need to be careful, though -- people tend to get eaten alive when
presenting as vendors at SVLUG.  I see that your own background is
technical rather than marketing, but if we say "VP of Marketing" on the
talk description folks will stay away in droves.  The alternatives
include finding a low-level device driver or hardware engineer who can
present, or finding some other umbrella to describe you under.  Have you
published any open-source InfiniBand work yourself, or contributed code
to the Sourceforge project, for instance?  That would be useful.

Right now the next open slot isn't until December, so there's plenty of
time to work out a solution.

Steve



On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:23:46PM -0700, Kevin Deierling wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I'd like to recommend a topic for the SVLUG on InfiniBand and Linux.
> There has been a great deal of InfiniBand activity in the Linux space,
> particularly in the area of Linux based high performance computing clusters:
> 
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7459807643.html
> http://www.tgc.com/breaking/1142.html
> http://www.eetimes.com/pressreleases/prnewswire/84847
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1142082,00.asp
> http://technet.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/oracle_IB.pdf
> 
> 
> 	There are a number of interesting issues for the Linux community
> including the requirements needed to support the IETF IPoverIB draft RFC.
> Also interesting is how InfiniBand's kernel bypass and hardware transport
> mechanisms can be exploited by Linux based applications. There are a number
> of open source development programs supporting 10Gb/s InfiniBand development
> for Linux including SourceForge projects for InfiniBand and DAFS/DAPL
> (Direct Access File System and Programming Library), as well as several open
> source MPI (Message Passing Interface) implementations for Linux. These
> projects provide several APIs and implementations of transports which
> support kernel bypass operations allowing user space processes to
> communicate directly with remote processes using process virtual addresses
> and remote direct memory access (RDMA). Additional APIs such as Sockets
> Direct Protocol provide similar kernel bypass capabilities while preserving
> software compatibility with applications originally written to run above TCP
> transports. 
> 
> 	I would be happy to present the work that Intel, Network Appliance,
> Oracle, Mellanox, and others are doing in the InfiniBand space. Please let
> me know if there is interest in this topic at the SVLUG. 
> 
> 	KD 
> 	
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> Mellanox Technologies
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