1. OpenFabrics Developer Summit at SC06, Tampa Nov. 16,17
Bill Boas, Sujal Das, Matt Leininger, Hal Rosenstock, Tom Tucker, Johann George, Bob Woodruff, Pramod Srivatsa

2. Strawman Agenda Strawman Agenda
Thursday Nov 16 Room 17 see attached Tampa Convention Center layout
13.30 Introductions of Attendees and Roles, Process, Agenda, Goals, timelines, etc…
14.00 Share OFED ( Linux and Windows) experience from customers, IB vendors, OEMs
14.45 Break
15.00 Overview feature list and developers for OF-Linux Rel. 2.O – IB and iWARP together
17.00 Overview feature list and developers for OF-Windows Rel. 2.0
18.00 Processes for development, engineering test, bug fix and commit to OF trunk
18.30 Working Supper
19.30 – Component by component review of features, task sizing, time requirements
along with prioritization and strawman assignment to developers so as to produce
an ordered list of features and an assessment/estimate of commitment for the items that
are candidates to be included in Release 2.0 development for both Linux and Windows.
Friday November 17 Room13 Tampa Convention Center, Breakfast
08.30 Continue Component Review as described above until Break
Complete the ordered list, “draw the line”, finalize developer assignments.
Working Lunch
Development, engineering test, bug fix, commit and documentation for Rel 2.0
OF-OFED handoff and OFED-EWG testing processes review and update etc.
OFED 1.x feature road map till OFED 2.0
Break
Customer, IB Vendor and OEM feedback and contribution discussion
Outstanding Issues and follow up activities, wrap-up.

3. Purposes of Meeting
Identify the possible list of features that are candidate items for development for Release 2.0 of the OpenFabrics Stack (note this is not an OFED candidate list);
Identify the developers/contributors/maintainers that are candidates to participate in the development team and their prerequisites before commitment to participate can be assured;
Recognize these developers as the “OF Release 2.0 Developers Working Group” (OF 2.0 DWG)
Allocate developer candidates to items agreed for development and “swag” timelines, engineering test procedures and other resources;
Identify Alliance member product managers and customers who will participate in the item prioritization and inclusion process (which also needs to be agreed)
Discuss and reach consensus on the agreed development item list, confirm responsible contributor/developer swagged timelines, level of engineering test and trunk commitment process
Discuss and agree with the Enterprise Working Group (who are responsible for OFED 1.x and 2.x) the OFED candidate deposition and SVN branching process for OFED 2.0
Review and agree bug identification, logging in Bugzilla, assigning to developer and bug resolution for both DWG and EWG

4. Attendance Criteria & Company Commitment
Meeting attendance is encouraged from OpenFabrics members and selected individuals that can contribute to the negotiation of and commitment to: 1) - the features and components of Release 2.0; 2) - the engineering processes and resources necessary to ensure that Release 2.0 is developed for hand-off to the EWG for OFED quality assurance; 3) – improving the OFED processes to assure that OFED 2.0 meets Enterprise quality and robustness criteria as well as HPC performance and feature requirements; 4) readiness for Interoperability testing.
Companies and members participating need to send developers and product managers that can commit (at the meeting) company resources, developer’s time and effort and regression test suites and systems that can engineering test OF 2.0 so that every company believes meet its customers needs with 2.0 after the EWG has put it thru OFED and drop their proprietary competing software stacks.
The paragraph above implies that companies must plan their participation and commitment in advance as well as interact with collaborating member companies to workout in advance a strawman division of feature commitment, responsibilities and resources.
Linux distros, ISVs Tier 1 and 2 OEMs and Customers who are invited to participate should also understand that they will be expected to participate in detailed technical implementation discussion and prioritization of features. Participation in this meeting is also an indication by the customer that significant testing will be done by qualified customer personnel utilizing significant customer resources sufficient to contribute to the enterprise readiness of OFED 2.0 when it is released

5. Suggested Attendees Current Developers/Contributors/Maintainers
Additional Developers and Contributors particularly from iWARP and Storage communities
Engineering and Product Managers from Member companies as well as VPs
Make effort to get planning participation from Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, Appro, Linux Networx, PANTA, Rackable, Tyan, LSI Logic, DDN, Novell, Redhat, Oracle, NetApp
Designated representatives from XWG, IPWG, EWG, IWG and HSIR (add Oil and Gas, Mfg, EDA, ISVs,etc. to Wall St.)
Special Effort to invite participation by qualified European and Asian attendees at SC, e.g. IBM Germany, CEA, HLRS, Bull, CERN, Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi

6. Apps & Access Methods for using OF Stack
OpenFabrics Software Stack SA
Subnet Administrator
MAD
Management Datagram
SMA
Subnet Manager Agent
PMA
Performance Manager Agent
IPoIB
IP over InfiniBand
SDP
Sockets Direct Protocol
SRP
SCSI RDMA Protocol (Initiator)
iSER
iSCSI RDMA Protocol (Initiator)
RDS
Reliable Datagram Service
UDAPL
User Direct Access Programming Lib
HCA
Host Channel Adapter
R-NIC
RDMA NIC
Application Level
IP Based
App
Access
Sockets
Based Access
Various
MPIs
Block
Storage
Access
Clustered
DB Access
Access to
File
Systems
Diag
Tools
Open SM
User Level MAD API
UDAPL
User APIs
InfiniBand OpenFabrics User Level Verbs / API iWARP R-NIC
User Space
SDP Lib
Kernel Space
Upper Layer Protocol
IPoIB
SDP
SRP
iSER
RDS
NFS-RDMA
RPC
Cluster
File Sys
Connection Manager
Abstraction (CMA)
Mid-Layer
SA Client
MAD
SMA
Connection Manager
Connection
Manager
Kernel bypass
Kernel bypass
InfiniBand OpenFabrics Kernel Level Verbs / API iWARP R-NIC
Provider
Hardware
Specific Driver
Hardware Specific
Driver
Key
Common
Apps & Access Methods for using OF Stack
InfiniBand
Hardware
InfiniBand HCA
iWARP R-NIC
iWARP

7. Linux Components and Maintainers (and Most Active Participant)
Chief maintainer
Roland Dreier (Cisco)
Core
Sean Hefty (Intel), Roland Dreier (Cisco), Hal Rosenstock (Voltaire)
IB drivers - mthca
Roland Dreier (Cisco), Michael Tsirkin (Mellanox)
IB drivers – iPath
Bryan O’Sullivan (QLogic), Robert Walsh (QLogic)
IB drivers - eHCA
Hoang-Nam Nguygen (IBM), Marcus Eder (IBM), Christoph Raisch (IBM)
ULPs – IPoIB
ULPs – SRP
Roland Dreier (Cisco), Ishai Rabinovitz (Mellanox), Madhu Lakshmanan (SilverStorm)
ULPs – iSER
Or Gerlitz (Voltaire), Erez Zilber (Voltaire)
ULPs - NFSoRDMA
Tom Talpey (NetApp)
ULPs – Lustre NAL
Eric Barton (Cluster File Systems)

8. Linux Components and Maintainers (and Most Active Participant)
ULPs – SDP
Michael Tsirkin (Mellanox)
ULPs – RDS
Zach Brown (Oracle)
ULPs – VNIC
Ramachandra K (SilverStorm)
OpenMPI
Jeff Squyres (Cisco), Gleb Natapov (Voltaire)
MVAPICH
DK Panda (OSU)
ULPs - uDAPL
Arlin Davis (Intel), James Lentini (NetApp)
OpenSM
Hal Rosenstock (Voltaire), Eitan Zahavi (Mellanox)
DIagnostics
iWARP
Tom Tucker (Open Grid Computing), Krishna Kumar (IBM), Venkata Jagana (IBM)

9. Verbs Provider Library
Windows Architecture
Applications
Winsock Socket Switch
WinSock
Provider
MPI2*
IPoIB
NDIS
TCP/UDP/ICMP IP
User
Windows
Applications
OF Windows
Hardware
* Windows Compute
Cluster Server 2003
** Will be available in
the future
SDP**
SDP
SPI**
WSD SAN
Provider
Management
Tools
HCA Hardware
Access Layer
Verbs Provider Driver
Verbs Provider Library
Access Layer Library
Kernel Bypass
SRP
Miniport
StorPort
VNIC**
Kernel

10. Windows Components & Maintainers
Bus Drivers/Access Layer
Yossi Leybovich (Mellanox)
HCA driver
Leonid Keller (Mellanox)
IPoIB
Winsock Direct Provider*
Tzachi Dar (Mellanox)
SRP Initiator**
Alex Estrin (SilverStorm), Yossi Leybovich (Mellanox)
SDP*** ?
OpenSM
Eitan Zahavi (Mellanox)
uDAPL --
VNIC***
Alex Estrin (SilverStorm)
* Not available on Windows XP
** Not available on Windows XP 32 bits
*** Will be available in the future

11. Candidate Component and Feature Description
iWARP integration
Windows interoperability
IPoIB
Connected mode
Bonding
NAPI
SDP
zcopy
netstat
AIO
uDAPL 2.0 provider for OpenFabrics
(Note these are placeholders to get the real list started
by contribution from the attendees before the meeting)

12. Candidate Component and Feature Description
Node Description changed trap support
Event subscriptions and event handling support
Performance Manager
Quality of Service
Other HA, performance, and scalability enhancements
Additional IBA 1.2 verb support
Some IB routing support (enablement)
Asynchronous get_user_pages ?
Tools
Other PathForward stage 3 items ?
(Note these are placeholders to get the real list started
by contribution from the attendees before the meeting)