Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:30:55 +0900 (JST) From: Maho NAKATA <chat95@mac.com> To: kmacy@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, brooks@freebsd.org, shigeta@sci.u-hyogo.ac.jp Subject: Re: Infiniband status? Message-ID: <20081002.163055.13751768.chat95@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90810012333j5010df12uec5cc6e99e33adf6@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081002.150319.02288267.chat95@mac.com> <3c1674c90810012333j5010df12uec5cc6e99e33adf6@mail.gmail.com>
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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@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@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/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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