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InfiniBand at Sun. Carl Hensler Distinguished Engineer Solaris Engineering Sun Microsystems. Sun InfiniBand (IB) Strategy. NGIO, IBTA and OpenIB founder Exploit IB technology across entire product line HPC and datacenter applications Resell third-party IB HW
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InfiniBand at Sun • Carl Hensler • Distinguished Engineer • Solaris Engineering • Sun Microsystems
Sun InfiniBand (IB) Strategy • NGIO, IBTA and OpenIB founder • Exploit IB technology across entire product line • HPC and datacenter applications • Resell third-party IB HW • Develop industry-leading IB HW & SW products • Solaris IB SW support will match Open Fabrics portfolio in functionality and performance • Support Open Fabrics SW on Linux and Windows
IB Activities at Sun • Mellanox HCAs and Sun 9-port 4x/12x switch on price list • Cisco, Voltaire & Qlogic switches & HCAs certified Solaris Ready • 3rd party IB HW available in pre-assembled racks • Broad IB development program (all divisions) • HPC deployments – Tokyo Institute of Technology (#9 11/06) w Voltaire - Texas Advanced Computing Center Teragrid cluster this year (>400 teraflops)
IB in Solaris • Complete IB SW infrastructure in Solaris • SPARC, x86 and x64 • IPoIB, uDAPL, SRP, SRP boot, SDP, RDS • MPI (MVAPICH, Open MPI, Scali) • Coming soon: NFS/RDMA, iSER, IP boot, OFA User Verbs • Funding NFS/RDMA and pNFS work on Solaris at Ohio State University • iWARP support in development
What we want from OFA • IB & iWARP SW support for Linux and Windows • Complete • Reliable • Stable • Distributed and supported by major distros • Supported by solution providers, e.g. Cisco, QLogic & Voltaire • Supported by interface vendors • No hassles in delivering solutions – it all just works! .
Carl Hensler carl.hensler@sun.com