Supercomputing Archives - InfiniBand Trade Association

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

IBTA Admin2020-05-05T21:37:12+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

Nereus2020-04-24T19:49:14+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 [...]

TOP500 List Results: HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand Continues to See Major Growth

Bill Lee2019-12-12T16:25:05+00:00December 11, 2019|

By Bill Lee The 54th edition of the TOP500 List, a ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, was released this November, showcasing InfiniBand’s ever-growing presence on the List. The IBTA is pleased to share that HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand is now accelerating 31 percent of new InfiniBand-based systems on the List, including the [...]

InfiniBand: Protect Your Network Investment with Maximum Performance and Scalability

Gilad Shainer2019-09-20T20:37:32+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

Bill Lee2019-08-27T15:37:21+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 [...]

InfiniBand® Accelerates World’s Top Three Supercomputers While HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand Debuts on TOP500 List

Bill Lee2019-07-01T18:35:07+00:00July 1, 2019|

By Bill Lee The 53rd edition of the TOP500 List, a ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers, was released this month. The IBTA is excited to share that InfiniBand accelerates the top three supercomputers in the world and six of the top 10 systems. Additionally, HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand, the fastest end to end interconnect [...]

IBTA Updates HPC Community on the Continued Evolution of InfiniBand at SC16

Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T17:12:18+00:00November 14, 2016|

Starting this week, the international supercomputing community will gather in Salt Lake City, Utah for the Supercomputing Conference 2016 (SC16). The event includes six days of timely and informative presentations, papers, tutorials, research posters, exhibits and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. SC16 gives scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and developers the opportunity to [...]

InfiniBand-based Supercomputer to Power New Discoveries at the Library of Alexandria

Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-15T01:14:54+00:00May 17, 2016|

Thriving civilizations, both past and present, tend to have one important characteristic in common – a vast, dynamic knowledge base. Whether it be the latest advancements in agriculture, civil engineering or battlefield tactics, technological innovation frequently determined the level and reach of a nation’s influence. One of the most prominent examples of [...]

SC15 Preview: Exascale or Bust! – On the Road to ExaFLOPS with IBTA

Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-19T17:13:08+00:00November 17, 2015|

This year's Supercomputing Conference is shaping up to be one of IBTA's most comprehensive to date. Whether listening to industry experts debate future system tune ups or cruising the show floor learning from members one-on-one, event attendees are bound to leave revved up about how interconnect advancements will alleviate data management road [...]

Race to Exascale – Nations Vie to Build Fastest Supercomputer

Kaitlyn Gooding2018-03-15T01:40:26+00:00September 28, 2015|

Discover Supercomputer 3” by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is licensed under CC BY 2.0 The race between countries to build the fastest, biggest or first of anything is nothing new – think the race to the moon. One of the current global competitions is focused on supercomputing, specifically the race to [...]

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