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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
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
Five-Day Event Yields Insight into RDMA HPC Innovation Through OpenFabrics Software On April 8, the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) wrapped its 12th annual workshop, centered on furthering the development of networking technology. The workshop expanded its traditional focus on high performance computing by recognizing the impact that networks are having on all forms of modern data centers.
By Steve Poole The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Workshop is finally here. Today, OpenFabrics Software (OFS) users and developers from around the globe will gather in Monterey, CA to discuss emerging trends in RDMA fabrics and tackle the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry’s latest challenges. The 2016 agenda features a variety of technical sessions and birds
By Steve Poole The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has announced the official agenda and abstracts for our 12th annual developer and user workshop sponsored by Intel Corporation and Mellanox Technologies. This year’s workshop agenda includes more than 50 sessions delivered by OpenFabrics Software (OFS) experts from around the world. The gathering is gearing up to be one
By Steve Poole The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Workshop 2016 is gearing up to be one of the most comprehensive Workshops we’ve had the honor of hosting. This is due in large part to the impressive response to our first, formal industry-wide Call for Sessions. While OpenFabrics Software (OFS) users and producers begin their materials prep, event
