OpenIB Alliance Announces Extension of Charter to Include iWARP and Xen; OpenIB Alliance and InfiniBand Trade Association Announce Developers' Workshop August 22, San Francisco.SEATTLE -- The OpenIB Alliance today announced the inclusion of iWARP* verbs within its Linux and Windows driver code bases, enabling a single software stack for InfiniBand or Ethernet transports on 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. fabrics. RDMA fabrics allow servers to communicate directly with other servers' memories without material demands on CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. cycles, bus bandwidth or latency while preserving application memory protection, thus greatly increasing the scalability of grid and HPC fabrics. The OpenIB Alliance also announced its second Developers' Workshop August 22, jointly 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 (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 the RDMA communities. The workshop, termed the Data Center Fabric Workshop, is open to the industry with registration available at www.openib.org. Xen support In addition the OpenIB Alliance announced support of Xen, an open source, virtual machine monitor See VMM. (VMM) for x86-compatible computers which can securely execute multiple virtual machines, each running its own OS, on a single server with close-to-native performance. Xen is available for a range of Linux and BSD operating systems There are a number of Unix-like operating systems under active development, descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants. Currently, there are four major BSD operating systems, and an increasing number of other OSs derived from these, that add or remove today. Support for Windows will be available later this year when Intel's Vanderpool and AMD's Pacifica technologies for x86 compatible processors are available. Integrating Xen virtual machines with InfiniBand and other RDMA transports will enable better tools for cluster management, quality of service, hardware compatibility, security between guest operating systems, live application migration, load balancing and fault tolerance for real-time workloads. "HPC and grid datacenter fabrics need to offer a choice of transports that deliver low CPU utilization, low latency, high bandwidth and improve resilience and extreme scaling to thousands of servers," said Bill Boas, Computer Scientist in the Computation Directorate at 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. . "The extension of the OpenIB charter to include Xen and iWARP enables developers to address these requirements. We look forward to inclusion in many industry standard operating systems so that customers can deploy secure solutions with confidence." Data Center Fabric Workshop The Developers' Workshop will take place the day prior to the 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. at Moscone Center in San Francisco August 22 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with a reception to follow. The event will include discussions on RDMA architectures in grid computing, virtualization, storage in RDMA interconnects, interoperability and application interface consistency between stacks and architectures, and the progress of the OpenIB Alliance in delivering Windows and Linux stacks. The workshop, which is open to all, has a registration fee of $250. For registered workshop attendees Intel is offering a special IDF rate. Complete details are available at www.openib.org/workshop2. To register, visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=91491. About OpenIB Alliance The OpenIB Alliance is an industry association chartered to deliver a single, open-source Linux-based and Windows-based software stack for deploying InfiniBand. Founded in June 2004, the OpenIB Alliance is comprised of technology vendors and end-user organizations including: Appro; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Data Direct Networks, Inc.; Dell; Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.; Intel; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; 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 ; Linux Networx; Mellanox Technologies; Network Appliance; Oracle Corporation; Par-Tec; PathScale; 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; SilverStorm Technologies; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Supermicro Computer; Tyan Computer; Veritas Software; and Voltaire. More information about the OpenIB Alliance is available at www.openib.org. * Names and titles are property of their respective owners. * InfiniBand is a registered trademark of the InfiniBand Trade Association. |
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