Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-09-28T18:44:37-07:00September 28, 2018|
By Bill Magro and Eitan Zahavi The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has recently revised the InfiniBand Roadmap to reflect additions to the spec and now charts the expected availability of InfiniBand NDR solutions that are capable of up to 1.2Tb/s data rate. The refreshed roadmap details 1x, 2x, 4x, and 12x port [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-08-07T20:22:39-07:00August 7, 2018|
The latest results of the TOP500 List, which ranks the world’s fastest supercomputers, have been released for the first half of 2018. The IBTA is excited to highlight that Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit system, the new most powerful supercomputer in the world, is accelerated by InfiniBand EDR. InfiniBand powers the top [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-08-07T20:21:02-07:00August 2, 2018|
The IBTA through its RoCE Initiative is proud to announce the second edition of the RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Deployment Guide, a technical resource to supplement the IBTA’s RoCE educational program. The second edition of the RoCE Deployment Guide reflects both a growing industry interest in RoCE technology’s network acceleration capabilities [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-07-19T23:06:03-07:00May 31, 2018|
The annual OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Workshop is a premier means of fostering collaboration among those in the OpenFabrics community and advanced networking industry as a whole. Known for being the only event of its kind, the OFA Workshop allows attendees to discuss emerging fabric technologies, collaborate on future industry requirements, and address [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-03-20T00:02:06-07:00February 26, 2018|
In October 2017, the IBTA held its 32nd Plugfest at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), resulting in the latest InfiniBand Combined Cable and Device Integrators' List and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Interoperability List. Our rigorous, independent third-party compliance and interoperability program ensures that each cable and device that [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-03-15T00:58:39-07:00December 7, 2017|
The latest iteration of the bi-annual TOP500 List reveals that InfiniBand not only powers the world’s first and fourth fastest supercomputers, but it is also the preferred interconnect for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning systems. Furthermore, the latest results show InfiniBand continues to be the most used high-speed interconnect in the [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-04-08T17:48:03-07:00October 25, 2017|
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already impacting many aspects of our day-to-day lives. Through the use of AI, we have been introduced to autonomous vehicles, real-time fraud detection, public safety, advanced drug discovery, cancer research and much more. AI has already enabled scientific achievements once thought impossible, while also delivering on the promise [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2017-11-25T22:56:25-08:00June 14, 2017|
For those working in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry, achieving Exascale performance has been an ongoing challenge and a significant milestone for some time. Recently, experts have started to take a holistic system-level approach to performance improvements by examining how hardware and software components interact within data centers. This approach, known [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-03-09T20:39:50-08:00May 24, 2017|
The RoCE Initiative is excited to announce the launch of the online RoCE Product Directory, the latest technical resource to supplement the IBTA’s RoCE educational program. The new online resource is intended to inform CIOs and enterprise data center architects about their options for deploying RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology within [...]
Denise Jarrett-Weeks2018-03-15T01:01:21-07:00March 19, 2017|
The IBTA boasts one of the industry’s top compliance and interoperability programs, which provides device and cable vendors the opportunity to test their products for compliance with the InfiniBand architecture specification as well as interoperability with other InfiniBand and RoCE products. The IBTA Integrators’ List program produces two lists, the InfiniBand Integrators’ [...]
