InfiniBand at Sun

Carl HenslerDistinguished EngineerSolaris EngineeringSun Microsystems

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Sun InfiniBand (IB) Strategy

• NGIO, IBTA and OpenIB 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• Support Open Fabrics SW on Linux and

Windows

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IB Activities at Sun

• Mellanox HCAs and Sun 9-port 4x/12x switch on price list• Cisco, Voltaire & Qlogic switches & HCAs

certified Solaris Ready• 3rd party IB HW available in pre-assembled racks• Broad IB development program (all divisions)• HPC deployments – Tokyo Institute of

Technology (#9 11/06) w Voltaire - Texas Advanced Computing Center Teragrid cluster this year (>400 teraflops)

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IB in Solaris

• Complete IB SW infrastructure in Solaris> SPARC, x86 and x64> IPoIB, uDAPL, SRP, SRP boot, SDP, RDS> MPI (MVAPICH, Open MPI, Scali) > Coming soon: NFS/RDMA, iSER, IP boot,

OFA User Verbs> Funding NFS/RDMA and pNFS work on

Solaris at Ohio State University> iWARP support in development

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What we want from OFA

• IB & iWARP 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 all just

works!.

Carl Henslercarl.hensler@sun.com