Myrinet WinSock/SAN driver for Windows 2000?

David Rauschenbach <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.myrinet.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Myrinet,

I know that you folks have mentioned that you might be putting more 
emphasis into your TCP/IP driver for Unix soon, which would benefit 
projects based on standard networking API's.

Are you up to speed on Microsoft's WinSock/SAN efforts? If so, do you have 
a position on it yet?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if Microsoft has SAN driver hooks in their 
winsock DLL now (Win2k), then the opportunity for Myrinet is to have its 
customers running standard winsock apps communicating node-to-node over 
GM/Myrinet without traversing TCP or UDP/IP. Sounds hugely significant.

Microsoft/Tandem excerpt, explains WinSock/SAN:
 > Now, developers of SAN interconnect hardware can develop interconnects
 > that are WinSock 2 API­compatible by using the new standard SAN provider
 > API infrastructure from Microsoft. In addition, by using the Microsoft
 > infrastructure, hardware vendors will be able to direct the message
 > traffic from WinSock 2 client applications to SAN interconnect hardware,
 > bypassing the high-overhead TCP/IP protocol stack."
 >
 > "WinSock/SAN is expected to be in beta testing as early as next year
 > with release slated to coincide with that of Windows 2000."

David
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