InfiniBand Trade Association

Volume 1 Specification Release

Association Update

Global member organization dedicated to developing, maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand specification

• Architecture definition

– RDMA software architecture

– InfiniBand, up to 100Gb/s and 300Gb/s per port

– RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)

• Compliance and interoperability testing of commercial products

• Markets and promotes InfiniBand/RoCE

– Online, marketing and public relations engagements

– IBTA-sponsored technical events and resources

InfiniBand Trade Association

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Steering committee members

InfiniBand Architecture History

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Volume 1 – General Specification Volume 2 – Physical Specification

IBTA Roadmap

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• Scalability

–Deeper visibility into switch hierarchy

– Improved diagnostic mechanisms for quicker response

time and smaller impact on overall network

• Management

–More diagnostic information on cables and network

statistics

– Added counters for EDR

Volume 1 Release 1.3

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Moving forward towards Exascale

TOP500 Update

6

According to

November 2014

TOP500 list

Images courtesy of

Mellanox

Technologies

TOP500 Update

7

According to

November 2014

TOP500 list

Images courtesy of

Mellanox

Technologies

TOP500 Update

8

According to

November 2014

TOP500 list

Images courtesy of

Mellanox

Technologies

IBTA Members

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3M

Advanced Photonics, Inc.

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Amphenol Interconnect Products

Anritsu

Applied Micro

Bay Microsystems

Broadcom

Bull SAS

Cisco

ConnPro Industries Inc.

Cray, Inc.

Emulex

FCI USA Inc.

Finisar Corporation

Foxconn

Fujikura America, Inc.

Fujitsu Limited

Hewlett-Packard

IBM

Intel Corporation

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Lorom Cable & System Design

LUXSHARE-ICT Co., Ltd.

Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Meritec

Microsoft

Molex Inc.

Netronome

Network Appliance

Oracle

QLogic

SAE Magnetics (HK) Ltd.

Samtec

Semtech

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Software Forge, Inc.

Sumitomo Electric Industries

TE Connectivity

Tektronix

The Siemon Company

UNH InterOperability Lab

Unisys Corporation

Volex Inc.

Woodward McCoach, Inc.

Yamaichi Electronics USA

BOLD = Steering Committee member

Thank You