Infini Band at Sun Carl Hensler Distinguished Engineer

Infini. Band at Sun Carl Hensler Distinguished Engineer Solaris Engineering Sun Microsystems

Sun Infini. Band (IB) Strategy • NGIO, IBTA and Open. IB founder • Exploit IB technology across entire product line • HPC and datacenter applications • Resell third-party IB HW • Develop industry-leading IB HW & SW products • Solaris IB SW support will match Open Fabrics portfolio in functionality and performance Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Internal Use Only

IB Activities at Sun • Mellanox HCAs and Sun 9 -port 4 x/12 x switch on price list • Cisco, Voltaire & Qlogic switches & HCAs certified Solaris Ready • 3 rd party IB HW available in preassembled racks • Broad IB development program (all divisions) • HPC deployments – Tokyo Institute of Technology (#9 11/06) w Voltaire Texas Advanced Computing Center Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Internal Use Only

IB in Solaris • Complete IB SW infrastructure in Solaris > SPARC, x 86 and x 64 > IPo. IB, u. DAPL, SRP boot, SDP, RDS > MPI (MVAPICH, Open MPI, Scali) > Coming soon: NFS/RDMA, i. SER, IP boot, OFA User Verbs > Funding NFS/RDMA and p. NFS work on Solaris at Ohio State University > i. WARP support in development Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Internal Use Only

What we want from OFA • IB & i. WARP SW support for Linux and Windows > Complete > Reliable > Stable > Distributed and supported by major distros > Supported by solution providers, e. g. Cisco, QLogic & Voltaire > Supported by interface vendors > No hassles in delivering solutions – it. Sun Proprietary/Confidential: Internal Use Only

Carl Hensler carl. hensler@sun. com