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
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
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


