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Monday, 18 January 2016 / Published in Workshops
by Steve Poole We’d like to thank all participants who have submitted OFA Workshop 2016 proposals to date. We have seen tremendous enthusiasm from our colleagues and hope to keep this positive momentum as we develop the session tracks. As a result, we’re extending our proposal deadline. Proposals and session recommendations are now due by February 1, 2016
Wednesday, 06 January 2016 / Published in Workshops
by Steve Poole As our 2016 OFA Workshop quickly approaches, the OpenFabrics Alliance is once again developing what promises to be the premiere educational event focused on networking opportunities and challenges facing OpenFabrics Software producers and users. We encourage all industry professionals to participate in the current Call for Sessions. This may mean submitting a
Friday, 29 May 2015 / Published in OpenFabrics News
Over at the IBTA site I posted a blog describing some RoCE demos at the Microsoft Ignite 2015 conference. One showed RoCE at 100Gb/s on SMB3 servers and compared its performance against traditional TCP/IP. The second was a Windows Server 2016’s Storage Spaces Direct demonstration utilizing RoCE with Mellanox’s ConnectX-3 56Gb/s adapters, Micron RAM and
Sunday, 26 April 2015 / Published in OpenFabrics News
We’ve overhauled the OpenFabrics Alliance web site in order to make it easy for visitors to quickly and intuitively find the information you need. To meet the needs of the four most common types of visitors, we’ve created four key “Portals”. If you’re new to the OFA, or you need some information about the OFA’s
Monday, 17 November 2014 / Published in OpenFabrics News
I’m pleased to announce an expansion of the information available to the users of OpenFabrics Software. For a couple of years now we have been working to expand the knowledge base for users. We have been sponsoring workshops for users to discuss with their peers and industry experts issues and discoveries with their own networks.
Monday, 21 April 2014 / Published in Workshops
This blog includes feedback from the OFA Developers’ Workshop, and the continuing work of what was originally called the “OpenFramework Working Group”, and is now called the “OpenFabrics Interface Working Group” (OFIWG). Briefly, the history of the OFA has been one of expansion. More or less in historical order, the OFA has moved from: Linux-based
Tuesday, 19 November 2013 / Published in Consortium News
BEAVERTON, Ore. and Austin, TX – November 13, 2013 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, and the Open Fabrics Alliance (OFA), an open source community focused on developing the OpenFabrics Software for high-performance networking applications, today announced that member company representatives will discuss the
Tuesday, 23 July 2013 / Published in Technologies
By Brandon Hoff, director of product management, cloud and innovation, Emulex Software-defined networking (SDN) may seem like just the latest buzzword in the high tech industry, but there’s more to it than that. Among the obvious operational cost savings and operational flexibility, SDN brings a number of important benefits to the enterprise datacenter. One such
Thursday, 09 May 2013 / Published in Workshops
The OpenFabrics Alliance recently completed its 2nd User Day Workshop, a unique event that brings together OpenFabrics Software (OFS) users and provides them with a setting to talk with each other about the challenges, different opportunities and permutations in using OFS. We recently caught up with Susan Coulter, HPC Network Administrator at Los Alamos National
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