Susan Coulter from LANL presented this deck at the OpenFabrics Workshop. "The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is an open source-based organization that develops, tests, licenses, supports and distributes OpenFabrics Software (OFS). The Alliance’s mission is to develop and promote software that enables maximum application efficiency by delivering wire-speed messaging, ultra-low latencies and maximum bandwidth directly to applications with minimal CPU overhead. Founded in June 2004 as the OpenIB Alliance, the Alliance was originally focused on developing a vendor-independent, Linux-based InfiniBand software stack. In 2005, the Alliance committed itself to supporting Windows, a move that would make the Alliance’s software stack truly cross-platform. In 2006, the organization again expanded its charter to include support for iWARP and in 2010 it added support for RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), both for delivering high-performance RDMA and kernel bypass solutions over Ethernet. In 2014 the Alliance expanded again with the creation of the OpenFabrics Interfaces working group to investigate and incorporate support for other high performance networks." Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-gzo Learn more: https://www.openfabrics.org/index.php/abstracts-agenda.html Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter

1. 13th ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2017
STATE OF THE ALLIANCE
Susan Coulter / Chair of the Board of Directors
[ March 28, 2017 ]
LA-UR-17-22450
Los Alamos National Laboratory

2. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
HOW DID I GET HERE ?
 LANL / HPC
• Cluster System Administrator ~2005
• Network Team ~2010
• Deployment not Development
• Started a User’s Group (IBUG)
• Administrator-focused presentations at this workshop
 OFA Board of Directors
• Re-up’d LANL membership
• Jim Ryan retired
• Desire for non-vendor as Chair
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3. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
WHAT IS THE OFA ?
 OpenFabrics Alliance
• OpenIB, Inc.
• California corporation 1/6/2005
• Changed to OpenFabrics, Inc
• Pushed code upstream
• Created Verbs training class
• Created InterOp
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OFA
EWG, OFIWG, OFVWG
Interop, Compliance
Marketing Programs
Training Programs
Administration
logistics,
vision
test, validation
engineers
coders, consumers,
architects
industry
awareness
knowledge
logo programs,
validated designs
software
educators,
architects,
sys admins
Inputs Outcomes

4. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
OFA SUCCESS
 OpenFabrics Alliance
• OpenIB, Inc.
• California corporation 1/6/2005
• Changed to OpenFabrics, Inc
• Push code upstream – get OpenFabrics software into the kernel and the
distros
• Market and facilitate the technology
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5. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
 This workshop
• Bill Lee and the MWG
• Logistics, location, advertisement
• Scheduling, agenda
• Paul Grun and the Technical Program Committee
• Easy Chair / Submission Review
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6. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
 Online Calendar
• Working Groups and associated meetings
• Call in details
• Board Meetings, etc
• How to get involved
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7. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
 Training
• Developed a number of years ago
• Offered by UNH-IOL
• Now accessible via OFA website
• Free to all
• Can be used to offer classes for profit
• Would love to receive feedback and updates
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8. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
 Dual License
• Bylaws dictate member contributions be dual licensed, GPL & BSD
• Wider adoption by the community allowed some GPLv2-only files to slip in
• How many ?
• Where are they ? ( kernel space, user space )
• What does this mean for member companies ?
• What does this mean for OFED ?
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9. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
 Maintainer Support
• Face-to-face meetings
• 2 or 3 per year
• ~2 days each
• By invitation from Doug Ledford
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10. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
 InterOp Expansion
• Add software distribution testing and integration
• On-demand / release candidates
• Final release
• New tests to insure functionality
• Update testing framework
• jenkins / beaker / OpenQA
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11. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
 Bylaws Update
• Formalize officers and terms
• Dual license
• Ownership of software
• Mission going forward
• 2 At-Large Director seats
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Mission going forward

12. OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
TRANSPARENCY & RELEVANCE
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 At-large Directors
• Landscape has changed
• Upstream, integrated
• Developer community has expanded
• Fully open-sourced
 Townhall – Thursday @ 5pm
• Why does the OFA matter to you ?
• Does the OFA matter to you ?
• What more/less can the OFA be doing ?
• Honest, open discussion
Mission going forward

13. 13th ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2017
THANK YOU
Susan Coulter / Currently sitting in the Chair
Los Alamos National Laboratory