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 three and four of the top five systems. [...]
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 as well as the increasing number of RoCE-capable [...]
InfiniBand technology accelerates Summit, the new leader on the TOP500 List, the top three fastest systems and nearly 60% of the HPC category BEAVERTON, Ore. – July 18, 2018 - The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, today highlighted the latest TOP500 List results that report the world’s new fastest supercomputer, [...]
GOLDEN, CO - July 10, 2018 - Demartek, an independent computer industry analyst firm with its own computer test lab, announces the second edition of the Demartek RoCE Deployment Guide. RoCE is the acronym for RDMA over Converged Ethernet. Demartek produced this guide with the InfiniBand® Trade Association in support of the RoCE Initiative. "The 2018 edition of the Demartek RoCE Deployment Guide is an [...]
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 remaining challenges. The week-long event is made up [...]
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 TOP500, reinforcing its status as the industry’s [...]
Remote direct memory access (RDMA) is a well-known technology at the heart of the world’s fastest supercomputers and largest data centers. RDMA first became widely adopted in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry with InfiniBand, but is now being leveraged by cloud, storage and enterprise Ethernet networks with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). While RoCE technology is in high demand [...]
New InfiniBand Integrators’ List and RoCE Interoperability List Point to an Expanding RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and InfiniBand EDR 100 Gb/s Ecosystems BEAVERTON, Ore. – July 11, 2017 - The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, today announced the availability of its April 2017 InfiniBand Combined Cable and Device Integrators' [...]
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 their Ethernet infrastructure. The directory is comprised of [...]
The RoCE Product Directory complements the RoCE Initiative’s ever-expanding technical resource library BEAVERTON, OR – May 24, 2017 – The RoCE Initiative, an education and resource program of the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA), today announced the availability of the RoCE Product Directory. The new online resource is intended to inform CIOs and enterprise data center architects about their options for [...]