By Bill Lee As Supercomputing Conference 2018 (SC18), held this year in Dallas, TX, quickly approaches, the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry gears up to discuss topics ranging from HPC in the Cloud to the Convergence of HPC and Big Data. Each of the topics highlighted during the show will provide insight [...]

By Bill Magro and Eitan Zahavi The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has recently revised the InfiniBand Roadmap to reflect additions to the spec and now charts the expected availability of InfiniBand NDR solutions that are capable of up to 1.2Tb/s data rate. The refreshed roadmap details 1x, 2x, 4x, and 12x port [...]

The latest results of the TOP500 List, which ranks the world’s fastest supercomputers, have been released for the first half of 2018. The IBTA is excited to highlight that Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit system, the new most powerful supercomputer in the world, is accelerated by InfiniBand EDR. InfiniBand powers the top [...]

The IBTA through its RoCE Initiative is proud to announce the second edition of the RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Deployment Guide, a technical resource to supplement the IBTA’s RoCE educational program. The second edition of the RoCE Deployment Guide reflects both a growing industry interest in RoCE technology’s network acceleration capabilities [...]