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Logo Program News
The most recent OFA-IWG Interop Event (IE) was held at University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab in March 2008. The event encompassed products from both InfiniBand and iWARP vendors and included HCAs, RNICs, Switches, Gateways, SRP and iSER targets. The interoperability testing was performed using OFED 1.3 and the official Logo Grants and reports may be viewed at the following site: http://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ofa/interoplist/mar08/mar08.php

New Charter – version 1.1
The OFA IWG has updated its Charter and the new version will be in effect for the September 2008 Interoperability Event.

Upcoming OFA-IWG Interop Events (IE)
The OFA IWG Interop Event has been enhanced starting in the fall of 2008.  Interoperability testing will now occur in two phases.

1. Phase 1 - OFA Debug and Interoperability Event: The first week of testing will directly involve engineers from the OFA community and focus on debugging and interoperability testing. Testing during this week will be done using an OFED Release Candidate (RC). This will allow vendors to discover and resolve any issues with the RC, the test suites and the Devices under Test (DUTs). Any issues with the RC will be communicated to the OFA EWG and whenever possible, the fixes will be incorporated into the OFED General Availability (GA) release.
2. Phase 2 - OFA Logo Validation: This week of testing will be done using OFED GA. Vendors who have products being tested will be allowed to attend as observers. All testing will be done by UNH IOL staff. The results of this testing will be used to determine which products should be granted the OFA Interoperability Logo.

Interop Event Schedule

1. IBTA Plugfest - September 22nd – 26th 2008 – registration will open 8/1/08
2. OFA Interop Event - OFA Debug and Interoperability Event - September 29th - October 3rd
3. OFA Logo Validation - Based on OFED 1.4 GA – October 20-24 2008

The IBTA will be conducting compliance testing during the week of September 22nd – 26th 2008 which will result in devices being listed on the Integrators List. The OFA IWG Interoperability testing will commence on September 29th and successful testing will result in a Logo Grant for the product being tested. The event will be held at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab in Durham NH and it will include testing on iWARP and InfiniBand devices. InfiniBand testing will include QDR, DDR and SDR devices.

OFA-IWG Interoperability Test Plan
The Test Plan has been updated for the September event and will include automated scripts to run many of the tests listed below. The new tests which will be run at this event are listed below in blue. The updated Test Plan is available at http://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ofa/testplan.pdf.

• IB Link Initialize

• IB Fabric Initialization

• IB IPoIB – Datagram Mode

• IB IPoIB – Connected Mode

• Ethernet Link Initialize

• Ethernet Fabric Initialize

Test Goals

1. The OFA IWG is planning to run all four MPI at the September 2008 Interoperability Event. Priority will be given to the open source applications and also to MVAPICH1 because it is the most widely deployed in the market. The following is the intended priority with the goal to accomplish all testing.

a) MVAPICH1

b) Open MPI

c) HP MPI

d) Intel MPI

e) MVAPICH2

2. The OFA WIG intends to promote MVAPICH and Open MPI to Mandatory status for the March 2009 Interoperability Event. This will be determined by the successful execution of these tests in September 2008.

OFILG Cluster Contributors
The following companies have contributed devices and/or equipment to support the OFILG Cluster housed at UNH-IOL. You can see these donations here: Equipment List. These contributions are above and beyond the requirements of OFILG participation and greatly aid the OFILG in achieving its goals:

• Intel Corporation - 13 Xeon-based Servers for general cluster use

• Intel Corporation - 4 PCIeGen2 Servers for general cluster use

• Cables from: Amphenol, C&M, Intel, Mellanox, Meritec, Molex, Panduit, W.L. Gore, Zarlink

• AMD Corporation - 4 Dual Quad Core systems and 2 Quad Core Systems

OFED Release

1. The IWG is targeting OFED 1.4 Release as the version for the September 2008 Interop Event.
2. The original release schedule for OFED 1.4 is as follows:

   a) Feature Freeze July 15, 2008

   b) Alpha Release July 22, 2008

   c) Beta Release July 30, 2008

   d) RC1 Aug 13, 2008

   e) RC2 Aug 27, 2008

   f) RC3-6 every 5-10 days if needed

   g) GA Oct 06, 2008

Vendor Participation
The OFA-IWG is encouraging all members of the OFA to participate in this next event. The Logo Program allows vendors to bring proprietary stacks for Interop testing on systems that run AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Solaris and others as long as they are OFA-UNH-IOL Logo Group (OFILG) members. Vendors who are using Linux or the Windows operating system must use the official OFED stack when participating in the Logo Program. The Logo Program has been very successful and broad participation in this event will help insure the success of OpenFabrics in the HPC and Enterprise marketplace.

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