The international high performance computing (HPC) community is preparing for the upcoming Supercomputing Conference 2017 (SC17) – being held this year at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO, November 12-17 – and the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is excited to be taking part in this annual gathering. The SC17 technical program will once again explore a broad
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has updated the usage guidelines for its Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) training materials to encourage third party trainers to leverage and improve upon the OFA’s educational resources. With an aim toward strengthening the OFA’s educational efforts, the organization has decided to make these resources freely available for third party instructor
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
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
