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As part of its new training initiative, The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is holding a “Writing Application Programs for RDMA using OFA Software” class this January 19-20, 2011 at the University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL). If you are an application developer skilled in C programming and familiar with sockets, but with little or no experience programming with OpenFabrics Software, this class is the perfect opportunity to develop your RDMA expertise.

“Writing Application Programs for RDMA using OFA Software” immediately prepares you for writing application programs using RDMA. The class includes 8 hours of classroom work and 8 hours in the lab on Wednesday and Thursday, January 19 and 20. **Attendees enrolled by Dec. 24 will receive a FREE pass and rentals to Loon Mountain for skiing on Friday, January 21.**

Software Forge is a member of the IBTA and is helping drive this very first RDMA class. More information is available at www.openfabrics.org/training. Feel free to contact me with questions as well.

Regards,

Rupert Dance

rsdance@soft-forge.com

Member, IBTA’s Compliance and Interoperability Working Group

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As you may have already heard, earlier this week at HPC Financial Markets in New York, the IBTA officially announced the release of RDMA over Converged Ethernet - i.e. RoCE. The new specification, pronounced “Rocky,” provides the best of both worlds: InfiniBand efficiency and Ethernet ubiquity.

RoCE utilizes Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) to enable ultra low latency communication - 1/10th that of other standards-based solutions. The low latency is enabled by the use of RDMA which moves data from one node to another without requiring a lot of help from the CPU or operating system. The specification applies to 10GigE, 40GigE or higher speed adapters.

For people locked into an Ethernet infrastructure who are not currently using RDMA but would like to, RoCE lowers the barriers to deployment. In addition to low latency, RoCE end user benefits include improved application performance, efficiency, and cost and power savings.

RoCE delivers compelling benefits to high-growth markets and applications, including financial services, data warehousing and clustered cloud computing. Products based on RoCE will be available over the coming year.

Since our April 19 launch, we have seen great news coverage:

• Ethernet borgs RDMA from InfiniBand; The Register; By Timothy Prickett Morgan; April 19, 2010
• InfiniBand Marries Ethernet in New Network Spec; Bank Systems & Technology; By Penny Crosman; April 19, 2010
• New converged network blends Ethernet, Infiniband; EETimes.com; By Rick Merritt; April 19, 2010

Be sure to watch for another announcement from the IBTA next week at Interop. I hope to connect with several of you at the show.

Brian Sparks

IBTA Marketing Working Group Co-Chair

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