Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
- Version 1.4-alpha
+ Version 1.4-RC1
Release Notes
- July 2008
+ September 2008
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1. Overview
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These are the release notes of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
-release 1.4 The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
+release 1.4. The OFED software package is composed of several software modules,
and is intended for use on a computer cluster constructed as an InfiniBand
subnet or iWARP network.
- ia64
o Linux Operating Systems:
- - RedHat EL4 up4: 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
+ - RedHat EL4 up4: 2.6.9-42.ELsmp *
- RedHat EL4 up5: 2.6.9-55.ELsmp
- RedHat EL4 up6: 2.6.9-67.ELsmp
+ - RedHat EL4 up7: 2.6.9-78.ELsmp
- RedHat EL5: 2.6.18-8.el5
- RedHat EL5 up1: 2.6.18-53.el5
- RedHat EL5 up2: 2.6.18-92.el5
- SLES10 SP1 up1: 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp
- SLES10 SP2: 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
- OpenSuSE 10.3: 2.6.22.5-31 *
- - kernel.org: 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 (when it will be available)
+ - kernel.org: 2.6.26 and 2.6.27-rc5
- * OSes that are partially tested
+ * Minimal QA for these versions
1.3 HCAs and RNICs Supported
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for each package in the docs directory.
2.1 General changes
- o Kernel code based on 2.6.26
+ o Kernel code based on 2.6.27
o Added iSER target package
o Added NFS-RDMA support
o New verbs to support BMME (when move to 2.6.27):
2.2 Package and install
2.3 IPoIB
- o LRO support - when we move to 2.6.27
+ o LRO support
2.4 SDP
o GA level
- Enhanced Asynchronous Progress
- Tuned collectives
- b. Open MPI 1.3
- - Connection Manager support
- - XRC support
- - APM support
- - Message coalescing
- - B-SRQ / X-SRQ
- - iWARP verbs support with RDMA CM
- - Major job launch scalability improvements
- - Tighter integration with parallel tools
+ b. Open MPI 1.2.7
c. OSU MVAPICH2 1.2
- Scalable and robust daemon-less job startup