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Subject: Re: Infiniband device information
From: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>
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On Nov 18, 2012, at 21:09 , Daichi GOTO <daichi@bsd-consulting.jp> wrote:

> Hi infiniband guys, thanks for IB ml :-)
> 
>  InfiniBand devices are becoming more and more important 
> in Japanese HPC business environments (In Japan, word "BigData" 
> is used instead of HPC in these days, a business buzz word).
> 
>  To promoto FreeBSD as the best product to use in BigData 
> businesses, we need InfiniBand devices lists, devices working 
> well on FreeBSD.
> 
>      http://wiki.freebsd.org/InfiniBand
> 
>  Should we do add "IB devices working list" on FreeBSD IB
> wiki page?
> 
>  Some ISPs are trying to use IBs on their servers and they
> are going to choose CentOS because of the lack of FreeBSD IB
> support. Not good situation for FreeBSD. Needs improvement
> I guess.
> 

Yes, you should add the page, and you should also try to get the folks
like Jeff Roberson, who know about our Infiniband stack to point out
any issues.

Best,
George