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

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 storage. To keep up with demand, the InfiniBand [...]

By Tim Lustig|September 9, 2020|

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

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 of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification Volume 1 Release [...]

By Bill Lee|April 21, 2020|

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

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 Integrators’ Lists feature detailed testing and product information [...]

By Rupert Dance, IBTA Compliance & Interoperability Work Group Co-Chair|March 25, 2020|

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

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), included thorough compliance and interoperability testing of each [...]

By Rupert Dance, IBTA Compliance & Interoperability Work Group Co-Chair|November 25, 2019|

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

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 technology currently available, has made its debut on [...]

By Bill Lee|July 1, 2019|

The Most Extensive Integrators’ Lists To-Date Delivers to IT Decision Makers a Comprehensive List of IBTA Compliant and Interoperable Network Products

By Rupert Dance In April 2018, the IBTA’s Plugfest 33 saw the first instance of HDR 200Gb/s copper cables being tested for compliance, paving the way for the rollout of HDR in 2019. As a result of Plugfest 33’s breakthrough compliance testing, the 34th IBTA Plugfest, held at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) in October of 2018, [...]

By Rupert Dance, IBTA Compliance & Interoperability Work Group Co-Chair|June 12, 2019|

RDMA for the Enterprise: Enabling the Modern Data Center

By Bill Lee The IBTA is excited to announce the publication of Enabling the Modern Data Center – RDMA for the Enterprise, a booklet that expands on the application and value of RDMA in data centers serving the enterprise, the cloud, and the World Wide Web. This booklet is a companion to Introduction to InfiniBand™ for End Users, a mini-book [...]

By Bill Lee|May 21, 2019|

HPC Breaks Through to the Cloud: Why It Matters

By Scot Schultz High Performance Computing (HPC) in the cloud has the potential to improve a wide variety of industries, but this trend is not impressive simply based on its potential—there are already real world cloud applications leveraging HPC today that have led to incredible accomplishments. HPC in the cloud has enabled research into the effects of Climate Change, helped [...]

By Scot Schultz|April 25, 2019|

New Demartek Technical Guide to Help IT Professionals Deploy RoCE in 2017

As the industry jumps into the New Year, IT departments everywhere will be searching for innovative solutions to process the growing complexity of increasingly larger data sets. Many IT managers will be tasked with accelerating the performance of their data centers and doing so under tighter budgets, which makes the challenge even more difficult. Fortunately, network protocols such as RDMA [...]

By Bill Lee|January 4, 2017|

Incorporate Networking into Hyperconverged Integrated Systems to Gain a Market Advantage

The concept of hyperconverged integrated systems (HCIS) emerged as data centers considered new ways to increase resource utilization by reducing infrastructure inefficiencies and complexities. HCIS is primarily a software-defined platform that integrates compute, storage, networking resources. The HCIS market is expected to grow 79 percent to reach almost $2 billion this year, driving it into mainstream use in the next five years, [...]

By Bill Lee|August 22, 2016|