1. www.openfabrics.org OFED Interoperability NetEffect April 30, 2007 Sonoma Workshop Presentation

2. 2 www.openfabrics.org Overview  iWARP fulfills OpenFabrics vision of multiple fabrics supporting same RDMA enabled Verbs API

3. 3 www.openfabrics.org iWARP Plugfest  UNH-IOL multi-vendor interoperability plugfest  Participants included:  Adapters Vendors – NetEffect & Chelsio  Network Test Equipment – Finisar & Anue  Test Company – Lamprey Networks  Network Vendors – HP ProCurve & Fulcrum Microsystems  10 Gb iWARP Ethernet - plugged and played  Across multiple adapter and switch vendors

4. 4 www.openfabrics.org NetEffect Roadmap 1Q2Q 1Q 2Q 3Q4Q 3Q NE020 ECA Enhanced performance for ECA 20062007 Ports:1 @ 10 GbE (CX4/XAUI) or 1 @ 1 GbE (GMII) Host I/F:PCI-X (64/133) Services: clustering, networking NE010x ECA Full iWARP implementation Ports:2 @ 10 GbE (CX4/XAUI) or 4 @ 1 GbE (SGMII) Host I/F: PCIe x8 Services:clustering, networking, block & file storage Ports:1 @ 10 GbE (CX4/XAUI) or 1 @ 1 GbE (GMII) Host I/F:PCIe (x8) Services: clustering, networking NE010e ECA Full iWARP implementation Double performance, half latency, low power, low cost

5. 5 www.openfabrics.org Latency in Multi-Processor/Multi-Core Systems Number of Connections Managed by an Adapter P 2 (S-1) P => # of Processes per Server S => # of Servers

6. 6 www.openfabrics.org NE010/020 Ethernet Throughput

7. 7 www.openfabrics.org Industry Leading Bandwidth

8. 8 www.openfabrics.org NetEffect’s OFED Status  Participated in the OFA Interoperability Plugfest  Successful plugfest with NetEffect and Chelsio  NetEffect’s OFED 1.2 Compatible Drivers  Development -- Complete  QA -- In Progress  Customer Deployment -- In Progress  Source Code Posting -- June 2007

9. 9 www.openfabrics.org 10 Gb iWARP Ethernet Infrastructure  Switches – Tested with 10 GbE iWARP  Cisco  Force10 Networks  Foundry Networks  Fujitsu  Fulcrum Microsystems  HP ProCurve  Quadrics

10. 10 www.openfabrics.org 10 Gb iWARP Ethernet Infrastructure  Powered CX4  Support in place for powered CX4 – up to 100 m  MPI Support  OpenMPI needs to add iWARP support  Open Sourced RDMA Enabled Sockets  Broad application deployment means Sockets

11. 11 www.openfabrics.org Summary  OFED 1.2 – NetEffect deploying drivers to customers  10 Gb iWARP Ethernet is Ethernet  Adapters and switches just Plug and Play  The 10 GbE infrastructure – adapter vendors, switches, and cables are ready

12. 12 www.openfabrics.org Additional Resources  Web Resources:  NetEffect, Inc.:www.neteffect.comwww.neteffect.com  UNH iWARP Consortium: www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/iwarpwww.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/iwarp iwarplab@iol.unh.edu  OpenFabrics Alliance:www.openfabrics.orgwww.openfabrics.org  Specs:  RDMA Consortium:www.rdmaconsortium.orgwww.rdmaconsortium.org