The latest announcements regarding the OpenFabrics stack, this site, the development community, and just about anything else we can think of goes here. It's not slashdot, but it'll have to do.
Leading hardware vendors participate in 2nd OpenFabrics Interoperability Test Event. Press release available here.
OpenFabrics Alliance to host InfiniBand and Ethernet SCinet Fabrics at SC06. Press release available here.
Read the press release regarding the second InfiniBand-iWARP Interoperability Test Event, to be held October 11-13 at the University of New Hampshire's renowned Interoperability Lab in Durham, New Hamphsire.
The OpenFabrics Alliance showcases the first-ever unified InfiniBand and iWARP ethernet software solution in Oracle and Fluent/Intel MPI application environments. The official press release is available here.
The OpenFabrics Alliance presents the 2nd OFA Interoperability Test Event, October 11-13, 2006. For more details, click here.
Registration for the next InfiniBand Trade Association/OpenFabrics Alliance Joint Developers Conference is now open. The conference will be held September 25 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco. For more details, please click or take a look at the press release.
Read the press release regarding the announcement of the first enterprise distribution and the addition of IBM to the OpenFabrics Alliance.
The general diagram of the OpenFabrics Stack is now available under .
Updated libmthca 1.0.2 now available in .
Official OpenFabrics logos and templates now available under .
Read the press release for the June 22-23, 2006 OpenFabrics Workshop in Paris at the Hotel Le Meridien Montparnasse.
Registration for the next OpenFabrics Workshop in Paris is now open. The workshop will be held June 22-23, 2006, at the Hotel Le Meridien Montparnasse in Paris. For more details, please click .
1.0rc1 is now available. Source tarballs and RPMs are available . Subversion users can access it here. For more details, click here.
OpenIB Expands Mission to Develop Transport Agnostic Software for RDMA Fabrics and Changes Name to OpenFabrics Alliance. Read the press release here.
The 2006 Open Fabrics Symposium, which was originally stated for March 6, 2006, has been cancelled.
Registration for the 2006 OpenIB Developer's Workshop is now open. Click here to begin registration. Details regarding the workshop are accessible in the conference section.
The SCinet InfiniBand Cluster at SC2005 is staged and ready for action. For details regarding the companies involved, the WAN links, and information about connection to the native IB storage in StorCloud, download this press release.
OpenIB Alliance to Host Largest-Ever Multi-Vendor InfiniBand Fabric at SC|05
Over 30 Exhibitors Expected to Connect to Conference-Wide InfiniBand Fabric Based on OpenIB Software
SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- Sept. 26, 2005 -- The OpenIB Alliance today announced that it will host the largest multi-vendor InfiniBand fabric ever deployed at this year's Supercomputing 2005 conference (SC|05), Nov. 12-18 in Seattle, Wash. (Washington State Convention and Trade Center). More than 30 exhibitors consisting of InfiniBand infrastructure equipment vendors, server and storage vendors, software vendors, and research and university groups are expected to participate and run the OpenIB, Linux- and Windows-based InfiniBand software stack. This will be the first multi-vendor interoperability test of OpenIB in a cluster, campus and wide area network (WAN).
The live InfiniBand fabric will connect participating booths in the exhibition area via fiber InfiniBand links, providing a powerful infrastructure for exhibitors to demonstrate the advantages InfiniBand technology delivers including: clustered computing for high performance computing applications; peer-to-peer processing; high performance access to native InfiniBand storage resources in StorCloud; and long distance connectivity ranging from booth-to-booth within the convention center to a WAN across the continental United States.
"OpenIB and this team of vendors are literally building an 'InfiniBand data center' at SC|05," said Bill Boas, computer scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. "Participating companies will not only be able to experience the unmatched price/performance benefits InfiniBand technology brings to clustered applications and storage I/O, but they will gain valuable experience with standard OpenIB software in a multi-vendor environment."
Participating organizations including Cisco, Intel, Mellanox, SilverStorm, Voltaire, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NASA Ames, NNSA, Obsidian Research and others will use the fabric to demonstrate the interoperability and performance of their solutions with InfiniBand technology and the OpenIB software. Moreover, the fabric provides an opportunity for exhibitors to test their solutions in a multi-vendor environment.
SC|05 exhibitors that would like to connect to the OpenIB fabric can sign up on the SCinet connection request Website at . Sign-ups for a guaranteed connection will be accepted until Oct. 1, 2005.
Additional information about the OpenIB network at SC\05 is available at .
The press release for the Datacenter Fabric Workshop is now availble.
Presentations from the 2005 Datacenter Fabric Workshop are now available here.
Join the InfiniBand Trade Association and the OpenIB Alliance at the Datacenter Fabric Workshop, August 22, 2005 from 8:00am to 5:00pm, PST. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, August 23-25. Click this external for more details. The press release in Microsoft Word format is also available. Click this external link for registration.
The OpenIB Alliance announces Windows Software Stack Development for the InfiniBand Aritecture. External link to the article available at TMCnet. The press release in Microsoft Word format is available here.
Happy New Year. for the 2005 OpenIB Developers Workshop is now open. Click to access the registration site.
The site has been redesigned. It should be a lot easier to use now.
U.S. Department of Energy funds open-source InfiniBand work - CNET
OpenIB Alliance Members Win Department of Energy Grant - SupercomputingOnline
OpenIB Alliance Members Win DOE Grant - HPCWire