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
41 Percent of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers Leverage InfiniBand and OFS for Unparalleled High Performance Computing Capabilities July 06, 2016 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time BEAVERTON, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) and the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) today announced that 204 of the world’s most powerful supercomputers accelerate performance through InfiniBand and OpenFabrics Software (OFS). At 41 percent
