IBTA Updates Integrators’ List Following PF23 Compliance & Interoperability Testing
Updated IBTA Integrators’ List now available IBTA Plugfest 24 confirmed for October 7-18, 2013
Plugfest #23: InfiniBand Compliance & Interoperability Testing
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 [...]
Observations from SC12
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 [...]
New InfiniBand Architecture Specification Open for Comments
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 [...]
InfiniBand as Data Center Communication Virtualization
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 [...]
InfiniBand’s Data Center March
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 [...]
InfiniBand Most Used Interconnect on the TOP500
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 [...]
InfiniBand at Interop
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 [...]
VMware: InfiniBand and RDMA Better Than Ethernet
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 [...]
High Performance Computing by Any Other Name Smells So Sweet
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 [...]