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
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
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
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
