InfiniBand(SM) Trade Association and OpenFabrics Alliance Announce Joint Developers Conference Planned for September 25, 2006.SAN FRANCISCO -- Application Developers, Systems Vendors and End Users from around the World to Gather for Update on Widely Recognized High-Performance InfiniBand Interconnect Standard The InfiniBand Trade Association The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is the standards organization that defines and maintains the InfiniBand specification. It is an industry consortium. The IBTA was established in 1999, and its most prominent members include Cisco, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, QLogic, Sun and and the OpenFabrics Alliance today announced a joint developers conference has been planned for September 25 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, in co-location with the Fall 2006 Intel Developer Forum Intel Developer Forum (IDF), is a twice yearly gathering of technologists to discuss Intel products and products based around Intel products. The first IDF was in 1997. There is usually a Spring IDF and a Fall IDF. (IDF (Intermediate Distribution Frame) A wiring rack located between the MDF (main distribution frame) and the intended end user devices (telephones, routers, PCs, etc.). Cables run from the outside world to the MDF and then to the IDFs. See MDF and wiring rack. ). The InfiniBand Trade Association and OpenFabrics Alliance are working together to bring standard solutions to the market around InfiniBand interconnect technology and a common software stack. The developers conference will bring these organizations together - along with application developers, systems vendors and end users - for presentations and collaborative sessions that highlight the recent advancements in InfiniBand software and hardware technology. InfiniBand continues to be the fastest growing cluster interconnect, according to the 27th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful computers. Additionally, InfiniBand is seeing a significantly increased adoption rate in markets beyond high performance computing, including the enterprise data center, storage and embedded markets. All first-tier server vendors and leading storage vendors currently provide products based on InfiniBand technology. The developers conference will include keynotes from Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing at Intel Corporation, and Krish Ramakrishnan, vice president and general manager of Server Switching at Cisco. Members from the InfiniBand Trade Association will present updates and annexes to the InfiniBand specification, which continues to be modified to meet the evolving needs of end users. Members from the OpenFabrics Alliance will be discussing the latest developments of the software stack. "InfiniBand is taking its success in the HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. industry and translating that into momentum in mainstream applications and networks," said Krish Ramakrishnan, vice president and general manager of Server Switching at Cisco. "This developers conference is an opportunity for the user community to learn more about InfiniBand's performance and capabilities in enterprise deployments, as well as interact with the two leading InfiniBand industry groups." To register Attendees may register by September 1 for $149. On September 2 the rate goes up to $199. Attendees may also purchase conference passes to the Intel Developer Forum at a discounted rate of $750. For more information on registration, please visit: http://www.acteva.com/go/IBTAOFADevCon06. Further details on the event can be viewed at: www.infinibandta.org www.openfabrics.org About the InfiniBand Trade Association The Internet is creating an increased demand for server computer I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output subsystem performance, scalability, reliability and flexibility. A shift to a switched fabric-based I/O architecture will enable industry participants to meet this increased demand. The InfiniBand Trade Association developed a specification for a channel-based, switched fabric architecture that provides a scalable performance range of 2.5Gbps to 120Gbps, meeting current and future needs from entry level to high-end enterprise systems. InfiniBand I/O is the only open standard available today with remote direct memory access (RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) A communications protocol that provides transmission of data from the memory of one computer to the memory of another without involving the CPU. InfiniBand, Virtual Interface (VI) and RDMA Over IP are all forms of RDMA. ). The InfiniBand Trade Association represents the industry's choice for developing I/O technologies that will keep pace with the demands of the Internet age. About OpenFabrics Alliance The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA OFA - Optimal Flexible Architecture ) develops and licenses open source software for RDMA transport agnostic fabrics. The organization was founded in June 2004 as the OpenIB Alliance with two goals: to develop a Linux-based InfiniBand software stack for acceptance into the kernel, and for the Linux distributions to include and support this stack. In 2005, with encouragement from Microsoft, the Alliance expanded to develop and support a Windows stack. In 2006, with the decision to integrate the iWARP or RDMA over Ethernet into the same software stack, the Alliance has become fabric, or transport, agnostic. This transport agnosticism allows other RDMA interconnects to leverage the OFA software. The OFA is comprised of technology vendors and end-user organizations including: AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , Appro, Chelsio, Cisco, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique CEA CEA carcinoembryonic antigen. CEA abbr. carcinoembryonic antigen CEA (Carcinoembryonic antigen) , DataDirect Networks, Dell, 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) , Intel, Linux Networx, LSI Logic, Mellanox Technologies, Neterion, Inc., Network Appliance, NetEffect, Oracle, PANTA Systems, QLogic Corporation, Rackable Systems, Silicon Graphics, Inc., System Fabric Works, Sun Microsystems, Tyan Computer Corp., Symantec, Voltaire, Xsigo Systems and the following research members: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (body) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. , Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National and Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New . InfiniBand(TM/SM) is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association. Other names and brands are the property of their respective owners. |
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