FDR InfiniBand Continues Rapid Growth on TOP500 Year-Over-Year
Newly released TOP500 list signals continued adoption of the latest generation of InfiniBand among the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
Visit the IBTA and OFA at SC13!
IBTA and OFA will be exhibiting and presenting at the 25th annual Supercomputing Conference, taking place November 17-22, 2013 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
Emulex Joins the InfiniBand Trade Association
Emulex is proud to be a new member of the IBTA
IBTA Updates Integrators’ List Following PF23 Compliance & Interoperability Testing
Updated IBTA Integrators’ List now available IBTA Plugfest 24 confirmed for October 7-18, 2013
New InfiniBand Architecture Specification Open for Comments
After an extensive review process, Release 1.3 of Volume 2 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification has been approved by our Electro-Mechanical Working Group (EWG). The specification is undergoing final review by the full InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) membership and will be available for vendors at Plugfest 22, taking place October 15-26, 2012 [...]
HPC Advisory Council Showcases World’s First FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand Demonstration at ISC’11
The HPC Advisory Council, together with ISC'11, showcased the world's first demonstration of FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand in Hamburg, Germany, June 20-22. The HPC Advisory Council is hosting and organizing new technology demonstrations at leading HPC conferences around the world to highlight new solutions which will influence future HPC systems in term of [...]
NVIDIA GPUDirect Technology – InfiniBand RDMA for Accelerating GPU-Based Systems
As a member of the IBTA and as being the chairman of the HPC Advisory Council, I wanted to share with you some information on the important role of InfiniBand in the emerging hybrid (CPU-GPU) clustering architectures. The rapid increase in the performance of graphics hardware, coupled with recent improvements in its [...]
InfiniBand on the Road to Exascale Computing
(Note: This article appears with reprint permission of The Exascale Reporttm) InfiniBand has been making remarkable progress in HPC, as evidenced by its growth in the Top5002 rankings of the highest performing computers. In the November 2010 update to these rankings, InfiniBand’s use increased another 18 percent, to help power 43 percent [...]
Documenting the World’s Fastest Network Installation
Greetings InfiniBand Community, As many of you know, every fall before Supercomputing, over 100 volunteers - including scientists, engineers, and students - come together to build the world's fastest network: SCinet. This year, over 168 miles of fiber will be used to form the data backbone. The network takes months to build [...]
InfiniBand Leads List of Russian Top50 Supercomputers; Connects 74 Percent, Including Seven of the Top10 Supercomputers
Last week, the 12th edition of Russia's Top50 list of the most powerful high performance computing systems was released at the annual Parallel Computing Technologies international conference. The list is ranked according to Linpack benchmark results and provides an important tool for tracking usage trends in HPC in Russia. The fastest supercomputer [...]