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OpenIB Alliance and InfiniBand Trade Association Announce the Open Fabrics Symposium March 6, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- Feb. 16, 2006 -- The OpenIB Alliance and the InfiniBand Trade Association announce the Open Fabrics Symposium, to be held on March 6 in conjunction with the Intel Developer Forum Spring 2006.
The Open Fabrics Symposium will bring leading fabric developers and users together to discuss the future of fabric computing, including RDMA architectures in grid computing, virtualization and storage in RDMA interconnects. The Symposium is targeted at CTOs, CIOs, technologists, product managers, engineers, software and corporate developers and anyone working inside or around datacenters. Attendees will also learn about the usage of mainstream open source software stacks that leverage the benefits of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) architectures across Linux and Windows.
The Symposium will be held at Moscone West in San Francisco on March 6, 2006 from 8.00 a.m - 5:30 p.m., with a reception to follow.
To register
Register by February 24 and pay only $175. On February 25 the rate goes up to $250. Register at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=104352
The Symposium agenda is available at www.openib.org/conference/spring2006openfabrics/openfabrics_agenda.doc
About OpenIB Alliance
The OpenIB Alliance is an industry association chartered to deliver a single, open-source Linux-based and Windows-based software stack for deploying InfiniBand. Founded in June 2004, the OpenIB Alliance is comprised of technology vendors and end-user organizations including: Appro; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Data Direct Networks, Inc.; Dell; Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.; Intel; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Linux Networx; Mellanox Technologies; Network Appliance; Oracle Corporation; PathScale; Rackable Systems; Sandia National Laboratories; Silicon Graphics; SilverStorm Technologies; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Tyan Computer; Veritas Software; and Voltaire. More information about the OpenIB Alliance is available at www.openib.org.
About InfiniBand Trade Association
InfiniBand is an industry-standard interconnect technology defined by the InfiniBand Trade Association for the purpose of delivering exceptional I/O fabric performance demanded by data centers, high-performance computing, and embedded environments. Today, InfiniBand solutions provide high-bandwidth, low-latency 10 and 20Gb/s server-to-server and server-to-storage connections, and 30Gb/s and 60Gb/s switch-to-switch connections with a defined roadmap to 120Gb/s performance. InfiniBand architecture standardizes remote-direct-memory-access (RDMA) and 100% reliable transport--hallmark capabilities for the industry's lowest latency, highest bandwidth network or fabric available today.
With the InfiniBand industry delivering affordable server, storage, and network platforms, open-source, interoperable software stacks, cluster, grid, storage and virtualization solutions, InfiniBand is the optimal fabric technology for world-class computing.
InfiniBand(TM/SM) is a trademark and service mark of the InfiniBand Trade Association. Other names and brands are the property of their respective owners.
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