Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T18:36:14+00:00March 28, 2013|
The IBTA is ramping up for our 23rd Plugfest (Plugfest 23), taking place April 1-12, 2013 at the University of New Hampshire’s Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). The bi-annual Plugfest event provides cable and device compliance testing with the current InfiniBand ™ Architecture specifications as well as interoperability with other InfiniBand products. The IBTA [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T18:38:03+00:00December 3, 2012|
The week of Supercomputing went by quickly and resulted in many interesting discussions around supercomputing and its role in both HPC environments and enterprise data centers. Now that we’re back to work, we’d like to reflect back on the successful supercomputing event. The conference this year saw a huge diversity of attendees [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T18:41:21+00:00October 15, 2012|
After an extensive review process, Release 1.3 of Volume 2 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification has been approved by our Electro-Mechanical Working Group (EWG). The specification is undergoing final review by the full InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) membership and will be available for vendors at Plugfest 22, taking place October 15-26, 2012 [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T18:49:40+00:00August 1, 2012|
Last month, the Taneja Group released a report on InfiniBand's role in the data center, "InfiniBand's Data Center March" confirming what members of the IBTA have known for a while: InfiniBand is expanding its role in the enterprise. Mike Matchett, Sr. Analyst at Taneja Group recently posted a blog on the industry [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T18:51:53+00:00July 18, 2012|
Today's enterprise data center is challenged with managing growing data, hosting denser computing clusters, and meeting increasing performance demands. As IT architects work to design efficient solutions for Big Data processing, web-scale applications, elastic clouds, and the virtualized hosting of mission-critical applications they are realizing that key infrastructure design "patterns" include scale-out [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T18:52:53+00:00June 21, 2012|
The TOP500 list was released this week, ranking the fastest supercomputers in the world. We at the IBTA were excited to see that InfiniBand's presence increased on the list to become the most used interconnect for the first time. Clearly, InfiniBand is the interconnect of choice for today's compute-intensive systems! As the chart [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T18:56:29+00:00May 29, 2012|
This month, IBTA member companies attended the Interop Conference 2012 in Las Vegas. As news from the event streamed in and demos began on-site, we were excited to see that InfiniBand and RDMA were making headlines at this traditionally datacenter-focused event. Microsoft, FusionIO and Mellanox demoed a setup with Windows Server 2012 [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T19:00:28+00:00April 25, 2012|
Last month, VMware’s Josh Simon’s attended the OpenFabrics Alliance User and Developer Workshop in Monterey, CA. While at the event, Josh sat down with InsideHPC to discuss VMware’s current play in the HPC space, big data and the company’s interest in InfiniBand and RDMA. Josh believes that by adopting RDMA, VMware can [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T18:59:26+00:00March 29, 2012|
Taken from the ISC HPC Blog, by Peter Ffoulkes This month, the annual HPC Advisory Council meeting took place in Switzerland, stirring many discussions about the future of big data, and the available and emerging technologies slated to solve the inundation of data on enterprises. On the ISC blog, Peter Ffoulkes from [...]
Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T19:30:28+00:00February 13, 2012|
The IBTA wrapped up the four part fall Webinar Series in December, and if you didn't have the opportunity to attend these events live, there is a recorded version available on the IBTA's website. In the webinar series, we suggested the idea that it makes sense to take a fresh look at [...]
