By Susan Coulter The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is pleased to introduce a new central calendar. The purpose of this calendar is to make it really easy for folks to know when the various conversations about OpenFabrics Software (OFS) are being held, and how to participate. The OFS suite is large and sophisticated, and is used by
by Phil Cayton NVMe, or NVM Express, is a standard interface connecting hosts to PCIe bus-attached SSDs. It serves to optimize the SSD’s inherent high performance and parallel computing features for data transfers. Released in June, the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) specification is an emerging technology that gives datacenter networks unprecedented access to NVMe SSD
Susan Coulter Chair of the OpenFabrics Alliance I first got involved with the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) six years ago when I attended its Developers’ Workshop as a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) network administrator. I had been working with InfiniBand and other high-speed interconnects, and I was looking for additional resources and communities to learn
Congratulations to our partners at the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) for maintaining the technology that powers nearly three-quarters of the TOP500 recognized HPC systems. We look forward to still more successful collaboration, ensuring that OpenFabrics Software continues to enhance InfiniBand networks well into the future. What follows is IBTA’s recent blog post highlighting InfiniBand—and, in turn, OFS—TOP500
