Server OEM Panel 1 Bob Souza, HP 15 March 2010 OFA Sonoma Workshop

Usual Talk 1.Where we use OFED –High-Performance Clusters From big to small. Mostly Linux. Multiple kernels, distributions, interconnect vendors –Limited use in HP-UX (SRP, RDS) –FSI market data, messaging –Storage (HP SFSg3, X9000 NAS) 2.Whine about –Distros –Vendor-specific releases –Support

Last Year 10 GbE on motherboards Big, flat 10 GbE switches CEE/DCB enabling –Converged Ethernet –10 GbE RDMA alternatives

RDMA Choice Rich RDMA ecosystem - customer chooses –IB –iWARP –RoCEE, aka ((IBx?)|R|RDMA)o(CE)?E Buy the performance you need

Nurturing the RDMA Ecosystem HPC becoming mainstream –Cores, Ethernet Migrate 1 GbE community to 10GbE –The 50% of TOP500 on 1GbE –The hoi polloi who get 10GbE LOM for ‘free’ –Good 10 GbE performance data helps everyone Make it easy

Nurturing the RDMA Ecosystem Leveraging CNAs –10 GbE –FCoE + RDMA RoCEE iWARP

What’s Important IB Cost of large fabrics can be an issue –Fat-tree alternatives for cost reduction Pruned trees Torus Etc.

What’s important Customer Choice Interoperability –More than ever –Vendor responsibility Simplified customer interactions, support –Drives adoption –More code downstream helps –It should ‘just work’

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