Denise Jarrett-Weeks, Author at InfiniBand Trade Association

InfiniBand Trade Association Advances High-Performance Networking with New Specification Updates and Record Plugfest Participation

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2025-11-10T12:42:57-08:00November 11, 2025|

November 11, 2025 — The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) continues to set the standard for high-performance networking with the release of InfiniBand Architecture Specifications, Volume 1 and Volume 2, Release 2.0, and a record-breaking Plugfest event that expanded interoperability testing that include both InfiniBand and Ethernet RDMA-based products. Delivering Next-Generation Performance with [...]

InfiniBand Sets New Record on June 2025 TOP500 List Showcasing Its Vital Role in Supercomputing Advancements

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2025-06-16T16:32:33-07:00June 16, 2025|

The InfiniBand® Trade Association’s (IBTA) RDMA networking specifications continues to see massive success and adoption in the HPC market, including InfiniBand and RoCE-based Ethernet. According to the June 2025 TOP500 list, these technologies power 357 systems, accounting for 71% of the world’s top supercomputers. InfiniBand alone accelerates a record high of 271 [...]

InfiniBand and RoCE Advances Further in the TOP500 November 2024 List

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2024-12-04T01:08:29-08:00December 4, 2024|

RoCE Breaks into the Top50 of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) continues to shape the future of high-performance computing (HPC) through its RDMA networking technologies, including InfiniBand and Ethernet RoCE. In the November 2024 TOP500 list, these technologies power 365 systems—73% of the world’s top supercomputers. InfiniBand accelerates [...]

InfiniBand Trade Association Announces Unprecedented Membership Growth and Record-Breaking Plugfest Participation

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2024-09-12T00:56:26-07:00September 10, 2024|

Unveils Key Enhancements in Volume 1 Release 1.8 Specification BEAVERTON, Ore., September 10, 2024 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to developing and furthering the adoption of RDMA technologies, today announced several key milestones that highlight the growing impact and industry-wide adoption of InfiniBand and RDMA over Converged [...]

Celebrating 25 Years of the InfiniBand Trade Association

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2024-07-19T01:18:59-07:00July 17, 2024|

Open, industry-standard RDMA specifications have ignited the era of AI It's incredible to think that 25 years have passed since the inception of the InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA). Established in August 1999 by industry leaders, the IBTA created a clear and accessible interconnect architecture standard to provide a highly efficient, high-performance, scalable [...]

RDMA Networks Are a Key Enabler to AI/ML Deployments, RDMA Networking Market to Exceed $22B by 2028

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2024-06-25T22:07:32-07:00June 25, 2024|

The build-out of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) data centers is increasing capital intensity and changing how all customers build data centers. Networking for back-end and front-end networks plays a crucial role in maximizing the capabilities of these new data centers. Data Center CAPEX will likely double as AI/ML becomes [...]

IBTA Unveils XDR InfiniBand Specification to Enable the Next Generation of AI and Scientific Computing

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2023-10-06T20:32:06-07:00October 6, 2023|

XDR InfiniBand Will Provide Unprecedented 800Gb/s Server and Storage Connectivity, Elevating AI and HPC Infrastructure Capabilities BEAVERTON, Ore., October 5, 2023 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to developing and furthering the adoption of RDMA technologies, today announced the immediate availability of the IBTA Specification Volume 1 Release [...]

New InfiniBand Specification Enables Data Centers with Enhanced Switch Density and Scale Out Features

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2023-10-02T19:11:42-07:00November 9, 2022|

IBTA Specification Volume 1 Release 1.6 also includes additional Memory Placement Extensions to further reduce latency BEAVERTON, Ore., November 9, 2022 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to developing and furthering the adoption of RDMA technologies, today announced the availability of the IBTA Specification Volume 1 Release [...]

InfiniBand Continues Leadership on TOP500 with 17 Percent Growth; 39th InfiniBand and RoCE Plugfest Bring Record Turnout

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2022-09-12T23:35:36-07:00July 5, 2022|

BEAVERTON, Ore. July 5, 2022 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to developing and furthering the adoption of RDMA technologies, today announced that InfiniBand grew 17 percent year-over-year, connecting 197 systems on the June 2022 TOP500 supercomputing list. InfiniBand also connects 62 of the Top100, making it [...]

JaguarMicro Joins the InfiniBand Trade Association

Denise Jarrett-Weeks2022-04-01T00:10:11-07:00March 31, 2022|

The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is pleased to announce that JaguarMicro has become an official member company. Jaguar Microsystems (hereinafter referred to as JaguarMicro), based in Shenzhen China, focuses on cloud computing and data center data processing unit (DPU). Its products provide accelerated Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and RoCE for data center applications. [...]

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