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InfiniBand^Tm Trade Association Selects Larger Venue For Spring Developers' Conference

Event Moved to Florida to Accommodate Overwhelming Demand

PORTLAND, OR, March 7, 2001 - In order to accommodate tremendous industry demand, the InfiniBand Trade Association will move its first Developer's Conference of 2001 to June 19-22 at the Wyndham Palace Resort & Spa in the Walt Disney Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL.

"As we transition from specification development to actual products, we are seeing interest escalating in the industry," said Tom Macdonald, co-chair of the InfiniBand Trade Association. "During this time, we are committed to continuing to meet the demands of training the developer community."

The Developer's Conference will feature a multi-day tutorial on the InfiniBand architecture specification by the primary architects of the technology and information about upcoming compliance and interoperability activities. This event will also include InfiniBand architecture related exhibits from more than 40 member companies. The Developer's Conference is open to members and the public.

Additional information about the upcoming Developers' Conference can be found on the InfiniBand Trade Association Web site: http://www.infinibandta.org.

Launched in August 1999, the Trade Association is made up of seven founding companies: Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems, and more than 220 member companies.

To view a current list of members and a list of InfiniBand related announcements from member companies, visit: http://www.infinibandta.org. These companies have been working closely to create a specification for a channel-based, switched fabric server I/O architecture that provides for a scalable performance range of 500MB/s to 6GB/s per link. The 1.0 version of this specification was finalized and released in October 2000.

The InfiniBand Trade Association is comprised of eight special workgroups, each with its own charter, area of expertise and responsibilities related to the specification development process. The workgroups include: Marketing, Technical, Applications, ElectroMechanical, Link, Management, Software and Compliance and Interoperability.

About InfiniBand Trade Association

The Internet is creating an increased demand for server computer I/O subsystem performance, scalability, reliability and flexibility. A shift to a switched fabric-based I/O architecture will enable industry participants to meet this increased demand. The InfiniBand Trade Association developed a specification for a channel-based, switched fabric architecture that provides a scalable performance range of 500 Mbyte/s to 6 Gbyte/s, meeting the needs from entry level to high-end enterprise systems. InfiniBand Trade Association represents the industry's choice for developing I/O technologies that will keep pace with the demands of the Internet age.

	Press Contact:		Member Contact:
	Bilepo Scott		Tom Flynn
	Owen Media, Inc.		InfiniBand Trade Association Administration
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	bilepos@owenmedia.com		administration@infinibandta.org