I suspect more like a book along the lines of VIPL one from Intel. On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Paul Grun <[email protected]>wrote:
> In any event, I would be happy to volunteer to serve as an editor. Since > I'm a hardware guy I'm probably not a good choice to volunteer to author > any > of the technical sections. > > Did you really mean a tutorial, which to me implies a > presentation/classroom > format, or did you mean tutorial in the more colloquial sense of capturing > the RDMA folklore in written form? > > -Paul > > Paul Grun > Chief Scientist > System Fabric Works, Inc > Office: (503) 620-8757 > Cell : (503) 703-5382 > > Fabric Computing that works > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Boas [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:39 AM > To: 'Richard Frank'; 'Andy Grover' > Cc: 'Sumanta Chatterjee'; [email protected]; 'Wayne > Augsburger'; > 'Ryan, Jim'; 'Paul Gray'; 'Paul Grun'; [email protected]; Scott Friedman; > 'Jeff Squyres'; 'Roland Dreier'; [email protected]; 'Rupert Dance'; > Mikkel > Hagen; 'arkady kanevsky'; 'OFA Marketing Working Group'; > [email protected] > Subject: RE: RDMA tutorial and OFA > > Richard, Andy, > > Thanks for copying me Richard. I had not seen Andy's email on the general > list. > > Figuring out how to get tutorial and other documentation created and > published in the list of things to get done in 2009 for me in my part-time > role as Exec. Dir. > > There is no funding set up for this at the moment but I believe there will > be in about 30 days. > > That's because I'm thinking that we can get funding for this by making it > part of the funding for a new marketing plan for OFA that, with Wayne > Augsburger and Jim Ryan, we are preparing for the OFA Board to vote on at > the next con-call meeting which is on May 20 at 9.00AM PDT. > > Would you be willing to work with me and create a small team from others > within OFA who have the same interest to prepare a description by May 20 of > what the tutorial would look like, who would contribute to it, how to get > it > "polished up" for web and/or book style publication, what the overall costs > would be, etc. > > My thoughts, that could be a starting point for the team's work, are that > we > would make the creation a collective effort. > > The tutorial would have several sections for example general intro, > benefits > of RDMA, applicability in HPC and Enterprise, networking background etc. > Members of the Marketing Working Group would be responsible for this. > > The "meat" would be sections for kernel level things (verbs etc.), then > user > space things (verbs etc.), then APIs like MPI, SDP, EDS etc. - each section > overseen by the technical leaders/maintainers of the code within OFA for > that section (for Example Tom Talpey for NFSoRDMA, or you Richard for RDS) > > Finally the tutorial would have sections about Interoperability Testing > that > OFA/IOL does but also what customers can do on there own systems - Arkady > and Rupert and IOL have put in an SC09 tutorial proposal that we could > leverage in this section. > > To all readers of this email:- > If you have read this far, please give us all some feedback. If you have > material you'd like to contribute please say so. If there's a better way, > tell us what you think it is! > > Thanks, > > Bill. > > Bill Boas > Executive Director and Vice Chair > OpenFabrics Alliance > 510-375-8840 > [email protected] > www.openfabrics.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Frank [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:58 PM > To: Andy Grover > Cc: Bill Boas; Sumanta Chatterjee > Subject: Re: RDMA tutorial and OFA > > Andy, I saw your postings to ofa-general on this and I agree it would be > great to have this documentation. > > As OpenFabrics is really about RDMA... we need to make it simpler > for folks to pick up and run with RDMA concepts ...vs.. digging thru the IB > specs and code examples, etc. > > Let's see what Bill Boas thinks...perhaps OFA has a writer on board that > can help us do this..? > > I can also help provide input for a new OFA RDMA tutorial doc.. > > Rick > > Andy Grover wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > > > Are you around for a brief chat this afternoon? I have a crazy idea that > > involves OFA doing something (or putting up $$) and I wanted to see what > > you thought, since you're Oracle's OFA rep, right? > > > > -- Andy > > > > > -- Cheers, Arkady Kanevsky
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