Today’s open source software landscape features an ever-expanding number of mature projects with development activity spanning multiple organizations. Developers on these projects come from large and small enterprises, educational institutions, and a pool of unaffiliated, open source developers. This diverse group of contributors works together to enable their projects’ core goals or use cases. However, there are challenges with this diversity of projects, developers, and outcomes. How can we reliably meet the needs of all stakeholders? When setting up a...
IOL Blog Entries for September 2024
5 Lessons Learned in Hosting a CI Test Lab at UNH-IOL
By Patrick Robb - September 26, 2024
Manual RDMA Testing Using the OFA FSDP Cluster
By Jeremy Spewock - September 17, 2024
A common roadblock RDMA developers face is the need for access to required hardware. With multiple types of RDMA fabrics, each requiring specific kinds of Network Interface Cards (NICs) to support them, a growing “paywall” blocks developers from testing their RDMA software. The Fabric Software Development Platform (FSDP) provided by the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) was created to support RDMA developers struggling with this issue by granting access to a cluster of machines that host RDMA-capable hardware.
Since September 2021,...