2007 OpenFabrics Sonoma Workshopプレゼン資料公開

[07/05/25]
"The Need for Increased Bandwidth and Capacity Will Drive Infiniband Adoption Through 2011, IDC Says", May 24, 2007, IDC - Press Release
　http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp;jsessionid=O00CF1NHV22O0CQJAFICFGAKBEAUMIWD?containerId=prUS20701607
"According to new research from IDC, high-performance computing (HPC), scale-out database environments, shared virtualized I/O, and increasing demands from financial applications will propel worldwide InfiniBand host channel adaptor (HCA) factory revenues from $62.3 million in 2006 to $224.7 million in 2011. Additionally, factory revenue from InfiniBand switch port sales is expected to grow from $94.9 million in 2006 to $612.2 million in 2011."

Worldwide InfiniBand 2007–2011 Forecast
　May 2007, Doc #206902, Printed Page Length: 13 pages
　Price $ 4,500.00
　http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=206902
"This IDC study presents a worldwide forecast for InfiniBand adoption as a server interconnect for 2006–2011."
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[07/05/23]
2007 OpenFabrics Sonoma Workshop - The Lodge at Sonoma, April 29 - May 2, 2007
　http://www.openfabrics.org/archives/april2007sonoma.htm

50近いプレゼンテーション資料ととても内容豊富です。

ストレージ関係では：
"Barriers to IB adoption (Storage Perspective)",
　Ashish Batwara, Software Solution Architect, LSI Logic
"Converged Fabrics",
　Converged Fabrics Lloyd Dickman, QLogic
"Adventures Installing Infiniband Storage",
　Randy Kreiser, Chief Architect, Data Direct Networks
"Lustre Networking with OFED",
　Andreas Dilger, Principal System Software Engineer, Cluster File Systems, Inc.
"Experiences with NFS over IB and iWARP RDMA",
　Helen Chen, Noah Fischer, Matt Leininger, and Mitch Williams Sandia, National Laboratories
"iSER Storage Target",
　Yaron Haviv, CTO, Voltaire
と前回より多く、より具体的に感じます。

具体的なユーザ事例も増えています。
"Infiniband in EDA (Chip Design)",
　Glenn Newell, Sr. Staff IT Architect, Synopsys
11ページ：High Performance Linux Clusters Production Model
　200 cores 50 nodes
　Lustre (8 OSS 2 MDS)
　　4X Infiniband 192 port DDR capable Switch
　　DataDirectNetworks (16TB)
これは美しい(?)と思ったのですが、よく見れば FC版の DDNですね。
せっかくだから InfiniBand版 DDNと感じますが、"Production Model" ということでしょうか。

InfiniBand Native Storageが登場したときはファイルシステムがどうかなぁ、と心配してましたが、
Lusterがきちんと動けば良いわけですね。いずれにしても基本設計が肝心ですが。
IBM GPFSの InfiniBand版はどうでしょうか・・・
IBM GPFS documentation
　http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/clresctr/vxrx/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.doc/gpfsbooks.html
IBM Redbooks: Serach=GPFS
　http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/cgi-bin/searchsite.cgi?query=GPFS
う～ん、
ScicomP12(2006) IBM Talksの GPFSは
　http://www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP12/Presentations/IBM/
***currently-not-available***ですね・・・


Past Conferences
　http://www.openfabrics.org/archives.htm

OFED-1.2の公開は未だですね。
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http://blog.goo.ne.jp/topography/s/OpenFabrics
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/topography/s/InfiniBand
DataDirect Networks Japan Subsidiary, 06/12/05, 2007-03-01
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/topography/s/DataDirect
Lustre 1.6.0.1 released, May 5 2007, 2007-05-07
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/topography/s/Lustre
Texas Memory Systems RamSan-400, Solid State Disk, 2007-04-02