RoCE Interoperability Highlights Member Companies’ Interoperable Products BEAVERTON, Ore.—August 25, 2015—The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) today announced the completion of the first Plugfest for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) solutions and the publication of the RoCE Interoperability List on the IBTA website. Fifteen member companies participated, bringing their RoCE adapters, cables and [...]

BEAVERTON, OR—July 15, 2015— The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) today announced that InfiniBand for the first time powers more than 50 percent of the TOP500 and continues to be the most widely used high performance interconnect. The TOP500.org, a list of the known 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems, reported that [...]

RoCE delivers significant performance and efficiency gains to cloud, storage, virtualization and hyper-converged infrastructures BEAVERTON, OR—June 23, 2015— The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) today announced the launch of the RoCE Initiative to further the advancement of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology and promote RoCE awareness. The RoCE Initiative will provide education, [...]

InfiniBand Volume 1, Release 1.3 increases scalability and management for the world’s fastest supercomputers and data centers Sunnyvale, CA – March 10, 2015 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ Architecture, today announced the public availability of Release 1.3 of Volume 1 of [...]

45 percent of the world’s most powerful computers use InfiniBand interconnect technology SC14, New Orleans, LA – November 19, 2014 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, today announced that InfiniBand is the interconnect of choice for 225 of the world’s most [...]

New specification enables RoCE routing capabilities for the evolving enterprise data center and hyperscale networking infrastructure BEAVERTON, Ore. – September 16, 2014 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, today announced the release of RoCEv2, an extension of the original RoCE specification [...]

InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) announces details of newly released TOP500 list of supercomputers ISC14, Leipzig, Germany – June 25, 2014 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, today announced that InfiniBand is the most used interconnect by the world’s fastest supercomputers. Increasing [...]

IBTA Plugfest 25 to take place March 31 – April 11, 2014 at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) BEAVERTON, Ore. – February 25, 2014 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, today announced the availability of its October 2013 [...]

Microsoft to help lead and drive RDMA specifications and standards for large, mainstream data centers and clouds SC13, DENVER, CO – November 18, 2013 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, today announced that Microsoft joined the organization at the Steering Committee [...]

Computing experts will lead discussions on I/O architectures for future applications at upcoming supercomputing conference. BEAVERTON, ORE and AUSTIN, TX – November 13, 2013 –  InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, and the  OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA), an open source community focused on developing [...]