OpenIB Alliance to Host Largest-Ever Multi-Vendor InfiniBand Fabric at SC\05; Over 30 Exhibitors Expected to Connect to Conference-Wide InfiniBand Fabric Based on OpenIB Software.SAN FRANCISCO -- The OpenIB Alliance today announced that it will host the largest multi-vendor InfiniBand fabric ever deployed at this year's Supercomputing 2005 conference (SC\05), Nov. 12-18 in Seattle, Wash. (Washington State Convention and Trade Center The Washington State Convention and Trade Center is a convention center located next to and over Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle, Washington, adjacent to Freeway Park. Planning for its construction began in 1982; construction began in 1985, and the center opened on June 18, 1988. ). More than 30 exhibitors consisting of InfiniBand infrastructure equipment vendors, server and storage vendors, software vendors, and research and university groups are expected to participate and run the OpenIB, Linux- and Windows-based InfiniBand software stack. This will be the first multi-vendor interoperability test of OpenIB in a cluster, campus and wide area network (WAN). The live InfiniBand fabric will connect participating booths in the exhibition area via fiber InfiniBand links, providing a powerful infrastructure for exhibitors to demonstrate the advantages InfiniBand technology delivers including: clustered computing for high performance computing applications; peer-to-peer processing; high performance access to native InfiniBand storage resources in StorCloud; and long distance connectivity ranging from booth-to-booth within the convention center to a WAN across the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. . "OpenIB and this team of vendors are literally building an 'InfiniBand data center' at SC\05," said Bill Boas, computer scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. "Participating companies will not only be able to experience the unmatched price/performance benefits InfiniBand technology brings to clustered applications and storage 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 , but they will gain valuable experience with standard OpenIB software in a multi-vendor environment." Participating organizations including Cisco, Intel, Mellanox, SilverStorm, Voltaire, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore, Calif., respectively. , NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Ames, NNSA NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA National Nurses Society on Addictions NNSA Norfolk Naval Sailing Association NNSA Native Nations Sustainable Alliance (Phoenix, Arizona) , Obsidian obsidian (ŏbsĭd`ēən), a volcanic glass, homogeneous in texture and having a low water content, with a vitreous luster and a conchoidal fracture. Research and others will use the fabric to demonstrate the interoperability and performance of their solutions with InfiniBand technology and the OpenIB software. Moreover, the fabric provides an opportunity for exhibitors to test their solutions in a multi-vendor environment. SC\05 exhibitors that would like to connect to the OpenIB fabric can sign up on the SCinet connection request Website at https://scinet.supercomp.org/crs/login/. Sign-ups for a guaranteed connection will be accepted until Oct. 1, 2005. Additional information about the OpenIB network at SC\05 is available at http://sc05.supercomputing.org/exhibits/scinet.php. 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; 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.; Tyan Computer; Veritas Software; and Voltaire. More information about the OpenIB Alliance is available at www.openib.org. InfiniBand(TM/SM) is a trademark and service mark of 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 . Other names and brands are the property of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: There is a pipe symbol in the conference name between SC and 05. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. |
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