Leading Hardware Vendors Participate in 2nd OpenFabrics Interoperability Test Event.InfiniBand and RDMA-over-Ethernet (iWARP) Equipment Providers Moving Towards Product Interoperability and Support for OpenFabrics Software Stack DURHAM, N.H. -- The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA OFA - Optimal Flexible Architecture ) has completed the second OpenFabrics Interoperability Test Event at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab, where eight leading equipment providers in the computing industry put their products through extensive interoperability testing with the OpenFabrics software stack. Participating companies tested their equipment in a high-performance network environment that included the OpenFabrics software stack and clustered servers running the Linux and Windows operating systems. Testing included iWARP-only, InfiniBand-only, and transport-independent protocols and middleware. Test participants were Cisco Systems, Inc., Flextronics, SilverStorm and Voltaire, which tested InfiniBand switches; Mellanox and QLogic, which tested InfiniBand host channel adapters; LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, which provided InfiniBand-based Engenio storage systems; and NetEffect, which tested an iWARP Ethernet channel adapter. InfiniBand test participants utilized the Linux-based OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.1 software stack. The iWARP testing utilized an alpha version of the Linux-based OpenFabrics iWARP software stack. Both software stacks are open sourced, and the OpenFabrics Alliance is actively driving towards unification of the stacks to deliver an enterprise-ready, transport-independent software solution for high-performance computing. The OpenFabrics Alliance and University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH Unh The symbol for the element unnilhexium. IOL IOL Intraocular lens, see there ) are now developing an OFA-UNH IOL Logo Program for OFA members whose products are proven to support the OpenFabrics software stack and are interoperable. The marketing logo is intended to help companies increase adoption of products that are included in UNH IOL test events and pass the necessary interoperability evaluations. About OpenFabrics Alliance The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) develops and licenses open source software for 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. transport-independent 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 distributors 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 iWARP (also known as RDMA over Ethernet) into the same software stack, the Alliance has become fabric, or transport, independent. This transport independence 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 Systems, Inc., Cluster File Networks, DataDirect Networks, Dell, Flextronics, Hewlett-Packard, 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 Corp., 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. , Linux Networx, Los Alamos National Laboratories, LSI Logic, Mellanox Technologies, NetEffect, Neterion, Network Appliance, Oracle, PANTA Systems, QLogic Corporation, Rackable Systems, 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 , Silicon Graphics, Inc., SilverStorm Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, System Fabric Works, Tyan Computer Corp., Voltaire, and Xsigo Systems. For more information, visit www.OpenFabrics.org. |
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