IBTA TechForum '08: InfiniBand and the Enterprise Data Center

September 15, 2008
Harrah's Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV
 
All Sessions will take place in the Reno Room on the second floor of the Mardis Gras Tower.
The networking reception will take place in the Lake Tahoe Room adjacent to the Reno Room
TIME PRESENTATION SPEAKER(S)
8:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast and Registration
8:30 am - 8:45 am Opening remarks
8:45 am- 9:30 am Keynote John Enck, managing vice president, Gartner
9:30 am- 10:00 am Citrix XenServer Pass Through Simon Crosby, CTO, Virtualization and Management Division, Citrix
10:00 am- 10:30 am Xen with InfiniBand Moiz Kohari, vice president of engineering, Open Platforms Solutions Group, Novell
10:30 am- 10:45 am Break
10:45 am- 11:30 am

The Economics of InfiniBand Virtual Device I/O

 Jacob Hall, chief architect, Wachovia Corporate and Investment Banking, Wachovia
11:30 am- 12:15 pm
 InfiniBand Helps Enterprises and Service Providers to Build a Cost-Effective Cloud Computing Platform Kristof De Spiegeleer, CTO and founder, Q-layer
12:15 pm- 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm- 1:45 pm Accelerating Engineering Design Innovation with InfiniBand Sharan Kalwani, global HPC architect and computing infrastructure manager, General Motors
1:45 pm- 2:15 pm Oracle Database and InfiniBand Technology Paul Tsien, senior product manager, Cluster and Parallel Storage Development Group, Oracle
2:15 pm- 3:00 pm Grid Computing for TELCO Data Center: InfiniBand the Key Enabler Thierry Albelda, technical architect,  
France Telecom
3:00 pm- 3:30 pm IBTA Roadmap and OpenFabrics Update

Jim Pappas, director of technology initiatives, Intel Corporation

Wayne Augsburger, vice president of business development, Mellanox

3:30 pm- 3:45 pm Break
3:45 pm- 4:15 pm Multicore CPU, Virtualization and the Need for Higher I/O Iddo Kadim, director of virtualization technology, Intel Corporation
4:15 pm- 4:45 pm Panel: The Future of InfiniBand

Moderator:

  • John Enck, managing vice president, Gartner

Panelists:

  • Yaron Haviv, CTO, Voltaire
  • Wayne Augsburger, vice president of business development, Mellanox
  • Lloyd Dickman, CTO, InfiniBand Products, Host Solutions Group, QLogic
4:45 pm- 5:00 pm Closing Remarks
5:00 pm- 6:00 pm Cocktail Reception