Re: Infiniband status?

Hello Kip Macy

Many thanks for your reply. I understand the situation.
I'm not disappoint from that :)

All the best,

From: Kip Macy <kmacy_at_freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Infiniband status?
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:33:52 +0000

> 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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