Celebrating 25 Years of the InfiniBand Trade Association

2024-07-19T01:18:59+00:00July 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 [...]

The IBTA Expands Testing to Include Non-member Ethernet Switches and Validates Speeds up to 400G

2021-04-23T04:50:17+00:00April 23, 2021|

The IBTA Expands Testing to Include Non-member Ethernet Switches and Validates Speeds up to 400G Ethernet and InfiniBand networks have moved to speeds of 400Gb/s, and we'll see this number double in the coming years. Data center architects face ever-increasing demands to adopt these faster speeds as organizations transform vast amounts of [...]

IBTA Releases Updated InfiniBand and RoCE Integrators List of Interoperable and Compliant Devices

2020-09-09T17:44:43+00:00September 9, 2020|

IBTA Releases Updated InfiniBand and RoCE Integrators List of Interoperable and Compliant Devices Demand for High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud infrastructures for compute and data intensive applications continues to grow while answering the call for faster interconnects to transfer massive amounts of data between servers and between servers and [...]

IBTA Enhances Data Center Performance and Management with New InfiniBand Architecture Specification Releases

2020-05-05T21:37:12+00:00April 21, 2020|

By Bill Lee The ever-increasing need for higher performance in the world of supercomputing demands interconnect solutions provide continuously faster speeds, lower latency and advanced telemetry and configuration options. The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) continues to meet these industry demands by providing enhancements to InfiniBand scalability and optimization. With the public availability [...]

IBTA Enhances Data Center Performance and Management with New InfiniBand Architecture Specification Releases

2020-04-24T19:49:14+00:00April 21, 2020|

InfiniBand Architecture Specification Volume 1 Release 1.4 Includes Faster Network Signaling Rate, New Telemetry and Configuration Capabilities and an Integration of the RoCE and Virtualization Annexes   BEAVERTON, Ore. – April 21, 2020 – The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand specification, today announced [...]

Plugfest 36 Continues to Push IBTA Compliance and Interoperability Testing Program to New Heights

2020-05-05T21:38:00+00:00March 25, 2020|

By Rupert Dance This past October, the IBTA held Plugfest 36 at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). The products that passed Compliance and Interoperability testing during this plugfest have been published in the latest versions of the InfiniBand Combined Cable and Device Integrators’ List and the RoCE Integrators’ List. These extensive [...]

First HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand Products Tested and Verified at IBTA Plugfest 35 – Delivering Unmatched Speeds and Performance Boosts

2020-05-05T21:38:42+00:00November 25, 2019|

By Rupert Dance This past April, the IBTA’s Plugfest 35 became the first event to both test and verify HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand products, opening the door for high performance compute (HPC) systems to achieve new levels of speed and performance. This event, held at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), [...]

InfiniBand: Protect Your Network Investment with Maximum Performance and Scalability

2019-09-20T20:37:32+00:00September 20, 2019|

By Gilad Shainer, Mellanox Technologies The ever-growing demand for higher performance in the world of supercomputing requires interconnect solutions provide increasingly faster speeds, extreme low latency and continuous additions of smart offloading and acceleration engines. In a parallel computing environment, the interconnect is the computer and the heart of the datacenter. Proprietary [...]

The IBTA Celebrates 20 Years of Growth and Industry Success

2019-08-27T15:37:21+00:00August 27, 2019|

By Bill Lee In August 1999, the InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) was formed by a group of industry leaders with a plan to develop the InfiniBand architecture, providing a RDMA fabric with high-performance, scalability and programmability to interconnect data centers across the world. In 2015, following the success of InfiniBand, the IBTA [...]

Join Our Mailing List

Register below to join our mailing list and keep up to date with all news and events related to InfiniBand.

    I give IBTA permission to add my contact information to their email list for the purpose of sending me newsletters and IBTA announcements.

    I understand that I can remove myself from the list at any time as stated in the Privacy Policy