Wednesday, 02 November 2016 / Published in Workshops
March 27-31, 2017 CALL FOR SESSIONS INFORMATION COMING SOON! Hyatt Regency 208 Barton Springs Road Austin, TX 78704 Please mark your calendars for the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Workshop 2017, taking place in a new location at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, TX – March 27-31. Once again, the developer and user tracks will be combined
Tuesday, 20 September 2016 / Published in From the Chairs
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
Friday, 02 September 2016 / Published in Technologies
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
Wednesday, 10 August 2016 / Published in From the Chairs
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