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<h1 align="left">\r
<img border="0" src="openfabrics.gif" width="107" height="93"> \r
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<h1 align="center">User's Manual</h1>\r
<h2 align="center">Release 1.0</h2>\r
<h3 align="center">\r
-<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%m/%d/%Y" startspan -->04/23/2007<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="12562" --></h3>\r
+<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%m/%d/%Y" startspan -->05/04/2007<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="12564" --></h3>\r
<h2 align="left"><u>Overview</u></h2>\r
-<p align="left">This is the Windows OpenFabrics (WinOF) software package \r
-supporting InfiniBand fabrics. It is composed of several software modules \r
-intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand fabric.</p>\r
+<p align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">\r
+The Windows OpenFabrics (WinOF) package is composed of software modules intended \r
+for use on Microsoft Windows based computer systems connected via an InfiniBand \r
+fabric.</span></p>\r
<p align="left">The Windows OpenFabrics software package contains the \r
following:<br>\r
<br>\r
<ul>\r
<li>\r
<p align="left"><a href="#opensm">opensm</a> Open Subnet \r
- Management - configure a subnet</li>\r
+ Management - configure and manage an InfiniBand subnet</li>\r
<li>\r
<p align="left"><a href="#osmtest">osmtest</a> \r
Subnet management tests</li>\r
<p align="left"> </p>\r
<hr>\r
<p align="left"> </p>\r
-<h3 align="left"><a name="verbs_benchmarks"></a>User mode verbs micro-benchmarks<br>\r
- </h3>\r
+<h2 align="left"><a name="verbs_benchmarks"></a>User mode verbs micro-benchmarks<br>\r
+ </h2>\r
<p align="left">These micro-benchmarks tests are intended as useful benchmarks for HW or SW \r
tuning and/or functional testing.</p>\r
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<p align="left"> </p>\r
<p align="left"> </p>\r
-<h3 align="left"><a name="diags"></a>Diagnostics</h3>\r
+<h2 align="left"><a name="diags"></a>Diagnostics</h2>\r
<p align="left"> </p>\r
<h3 align="left"><a name="iblimits"></a>ib_limits - Infiniband verbs tests</h3>\r
<p align="left">Usage: ib_limits [options]</p>\r
</blockquote>\r
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<p align="left"> </p>\r
-<h3 align="left"><a name="opensm"></a>Subnet Management with OpenSM Rev: openib-1.2.0</h3>\r
+<h2 align="left"><a name="opensm"></a>Subnet Management with OpenSM Rev: openib-1.2.0</h2>\r
<p align="left">A single running process (opensm.exe) is required to configure \r
and thus make an Infiniband subnet useable. For most cases, invoking \r
opensm.exe with no arguments from a command window is sufficient to correctly configure most \r
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<p align="left"> </p>\r
<p align="left"> </p>\r
-<h3 align="left"><a name="IPoIB"></a>IPoIB - Internet Protocols over InfiniBand</h3>\r
+<h2 align="left"><a name="IPoIB"></a>IPoIB - Internet Protocols over InfiniBand</h2>\r
<p align="left">IPoIB enables the use of Internet Protocol utilities (e.g., ftp, \r
telnet) to function correctly over an Infiniband fabric. IPoIB is implemented as \r
an NDIS Miniport driver with a WDM lower edge.</p>\r
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<p align="left"> </p>\r
<p align="left"> </p>\r
-<h3 align="left"><a name="winsockdirect"></a>Winsock Direct Service Provider</h3>\r
+<h2 align="left"><a name="winsockdirect"></a>Winsock Direct Service Provider</h2>\r
<p align="left">Winsock Direct (WSD) is Microsoft's proprietary protocol that \r
predates SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol) for accelerating TCP/IP applications by \r
using RDMA hardware. Microsoft had a significant role in defining the SDP \r
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<p align="left"> </p>\r
<p align="left"> </p>\r
-<h3 align="left"><a name="DAT"></a>DAT (Direct Access Transport) Library and uDAPL (usermode Direct Access Programing \r
-Library)</h3>\r
+<h2 align="left"><a name="DAT"></a>Direct Access Transport and usermode Direct Access Programing \r
+Libraries</h2>\r
<p align="left">DAT and uDAPL are based on the 1.1 DAT specification. The DAPL \r
(Direct Access Provider Library) provider now fully supports Infiniband RDMA and \r
IPoIB.</p>\r
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<p align="left"> </p>\r
<p align="left"> </p>\r
-<h3 align="left"><u><a name="SRP"></a>SRP - SCSI RDMA Protocol</u></h3>\r
+<h2 align="left"><u><a name="SRP"></a>SRP - SCSI RDMA Protocol</u></h2>\r
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<li class=MsoNormal>Tools - Subnet Management [opensm.exe, SM is installed, not \r
started], Performance &\r
Diagnostic utilities</li>\r
- <li class=MsoNormal>mthca HCA driver</li>\r
- <li class=MsoNormal>IB fabric driver</li>\r
+ <li class=MsoNormal>IBcore - mthca HCA driver + IB fabric driver (ibal)</li>\r
</ul>\r
\r
<h4>Typical</h4>\r
</ul>\r
\r
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>\r
- <li class=MsoNormal>Net - IPoIB [Internet Protocols over InfiniBand] (aka,\r
+ <li class=MsoNormal>IPoIB - Internet Protocols over InfiniBand (aka,\r
ftp/telnet/... over IB fabric).</li>\r
<li class=MsoNormal>DAPL - DAT and uDAPL support</li>\r
</ul>\r
<li class=MsoNormal>Basics - Release Notes, Manual, Command Window</li>\r
<li class=MsoNormal>Tools - Subnet Management [opensm], Performance &\r
Diagnostic utilities</li>\r
- <li class=MsoNormal>mthca HCA driver</li>\r
- <li class=MsoNormal>IB fabric driver</li>\r
- <li class=MsoNormal>Optional:<br> Net - IPoIB<br> WSD - Winsock Direct Provider, service started; see \r
- installsp.exe -l<br> VNIC - Virtual Ethernet device over Infiniband<br> SRP - SCSI over RDMA Protocol<br> DAPL<br>\r
- OpenSM - InfiniBand Subnet Management started as a Windows Service</li>\r
+ <li class=MsoNormal>IB core + IB fabric driver</li>\r
+ <li class=MsoNormal>Optional:<br> IPoIB<br> \r
+ WinsockDirect - Winsock Direct Provider, service started; see installsp.exe -l<br> VNIC - Virtual Ethernet device over Infiniband<br> SRP - SCSI over RDMA Protocol<br> DAPL<br>\r
+ OpenSM_service - InfiniBand Subnet Management started as a Windows Service</li>\r
</ul>\r
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<p> </p>\r