1. OpenFabrics Windows Development and Microsoft Windows CCS 2003 Part1
Sonia Pignorel, Microsoft
Gilad Shainer, Mellanox

2. Windows Development Goals
Industry standard software stack
Increases adoption rate
Decreases development costs
Broad range of upper level protocols
Tight integration into the Windows OSs
Windows Server 2003
x86, x64, and Itanium
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
x64
Windows XP
x86, x64
Longhorn

3. Components & Maintainers
Bus Drivers/Access Layer
Fab Tillier (SilverStorm), Yossi Leybovich (Mellanox)
HCA driver
Leonid Keller (Mellanox)
IPoIB
Winsock Direct Provider*
Fab Tillier (SilverStorm), Tzachi Dar (Mellanox)
SRP Initiator**
SDP***
Tzachi Dar (Mellanox), Fab Tillier (SilverStorm)
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

4. Verbs Provider Library
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

5. Recent Development Activities
MTHCA replaced TVPD
Support all Mellanox InfiniBand HCAs including MemFree and DDR
Stabilization of IBAL, MTHCA, IPoIB and WSD
Performance tuning
Adding support for Windows 2003 R2 (virtualization)
Initial stage
Low level performance tests
Similar to the Linux stack
Management Tools

6. Status Production quality components Microsoft WHQL certification
Core
IPoIB
WSD
Microsoft WHQL certification
IPoIB – passes Microsoft WHQL tests
WSD – several issues are pending
Microsoft and OpenFabrics collaborate for resolution
Latest build available from OpenFabrics website:
1.0 release stream
SVN revision number included in release number
Latest as of September 21, 2006:

7. Call for Action Resources Call for action OpenIB WiKi
Openib-windows mailing list
Sign up to contribute
Binaries
Call for action
Contribute, contribute and contribute
Drive toward “enterprise readiness”