ADVISORY/InfiniBand Roadshow Coming to Dallas; Event Brings InfiniBand Industry to Local IT Leaders.News/Assignment Editors, High-Tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. Writers ADVISORY...For Thursday Thursday: see week. (Sept. 26) DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2002 The InfiniBand An input/output architecture used in high-end computer clusters and storage networks, introduced in 1999. Using switched, point-to-point channels similar to mainframes and also similar to PCI Express (switched version of PCI), InfiniBand is designed as a true fabric architecture that can (R) Trade Association (IBTA IBTA InfiniBand Trade Association IBTA Instituto Brasileiro de Tecnologia Avançada IBTA Instituto Boliviano de Tecnologia Agropecuaria IBTA International Business Travel Association IBTA International Business Training Association ) and 10 member companies will hold an InfiniBand IT Roadshow September 26 at The Westin Galleria in Dallas. The focus of this event is to prepare data center managers, CIOs and other IT professionals for the upcoming arrival of InfiniBand architecture solutions. The multi-company sponsored roadshow will provide training on the applications that benefit from InfiniBand fabric connectivity. Started in 1999 by Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , the IBTA has been working to develop a new technology that will radically change the way data centers are built, deployed and managed. This effort has grown to 220 companies including more than 35 start-ups that have been funded entirely to develop InfiniBand products. Joe Sekel, Senior Server Architect and Technologist, Dell will be speaking at the roadshow, as well as an IT end-user. There will also be multi-company demonstrations of cutting edge InfiniBand products. For more information about the InfiniBand IT Roadshow, including a detailed agenda, please visit www.infinibandta.org/itinfo/roadshow/.
Who: InfiniBand Trade Association and 10 Member Companies (IBM
Microelectronics, Intel, JNI, InfiniSwitch, Lane15 Software,
Libra Networks, Paceline, Redswitch, SBC Technologies, VIEO)
What: InfiniBand IT Roadshow
Where: The Westin Galleria in Dallas
13340 Dallas Parkway
Dallas, TX 75240
When: September 26, 2002
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