Re: Infiniband status?

Hi,
I'm afraid there is currently no IB support in FreeBSD. FreeBSD has an
iwarp driver for Chelsio's 10GigE cards and the kernel / iwarp side of
OFA RDMA stack. To support IB you would need to implement the IB side
of the OFA stack, finish user level RDMA support,  and talk one of the
users of IB on FreeBSD (NetApp & Isilon) in to opening up the Mellanox
driver for a recent card. If you're open to the idea of iWARP it would
"just" be a matter of finishing support for user-level RDMA.

I'm sorry to disappoint.

Cheers,
Kip


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Maho NAKATA <chat95_at_mac.com> wrote:
> Dear Brook Davis,
> (Cc: Prof. Shigeta Yasuteru)
>
> My superior asked me what is the status of Infiniband
> on FreeBSD. My friend, Goto, Daichi told me that you are
> interested in Infiniband implementation
> and some information about what
> you have presented in Asia BSD Con 2007.
>
> According to your presentation,
> http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf
>> 5 Thoughts on Future Clusters
> ...
>> As a result
>> we are considering both InfiniBand and 10Gb Myrinet
>> interconnects.
>
> Great to hear that!
>
> So currently underway and expect for future use?
>
> Any information is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> -- Nakata Maho http://accc.riken.jp/maho/
>
>
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