OpenFabrics Alliance to Host Third Annual International Sonoma Workshop.Event Scheduled for April 29-May 2; Sessions to Cover All Aspects of High-Performance Computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. for Linux and Windows, InfiniBand and Ethernet SONOMA, Calif. -- The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA OFA - Optimal Flexible Architecture ) announced today that it will host the Third Annual International Sonoma Workshop from April 29-May 2. This year's workshop will feature a broad range of content in approximately 50 sessions, with an agenda that includes topics of interest to the Linux and Windows developer communities as well as manufacturers and users of InfiniBand and Ethernet network equipment. "This year's event will be the most content-rich workshop we've ever hosted," said Jim Ryan Jim Ryan may refer to:
Highlights of the event are expected to include case studies of real-world deployments of the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software stack and a preview of the next-generation OFED stack, which will include support for iWARP (i.e., high-speed data transport over Ethernet). This year's event will also cover a wide range of topics related to high-performance computing, such as storage systems, power consumption, server architecture, enterprise software applications and databases, and interoperability. In addition, the agenda will include sessions of interest to professionals in vertical industries that rely on high-performance computing, such as financial services, energy and bioinformatics. Workshop attendees will receive updates on the development, quality assurance and feature set of the upcoming OFED 1.2 software stack; the OFA's interoperability certification and logo program; collaborative efforts underway with 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 Ethernet Alliance; and advances in standards that can help accelerate the adoption of high-performance technologies in data centers and enable higher-speed and longer-distance data transport. Registration Information The workshop is being held at The Lodge at Sonoma, a resort and spa in California's wine country. Individuals who wish to register for the workshop should visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=125720. Registration for the event costs $495. This fee does not include hotel accommodations. 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 to encourage 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 Systems Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS) is the company that originally developed the Lustre distributed file system. CFS was a privately held company with offices in the United States, Canada, and China. CFS was founded in 2001 by Dr. Peter Braam. , 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 LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. 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, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, System Fabric Works, Tyan Computer Corp., Voltaire, and Xsigo Systems. For more information, visit www.OpenFabrics.org. |
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