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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal> Dear Fellow Member of OFA and Linux RDMA community,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please forward on to your colleagues, prospects and customers in EMEIA and headquarters in US the invitation in “ “ below as well as attend yourselves if possible. If you’d like to lead a session please email me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bill.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“Please consider participating in this workshop given by the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) open source community for its developers, providers and users to learn of new features in our RDMA software (OFS/OFED), improved distribution with Linux and Windows, share implementation and operations experience, and join the newly created worldwide users list at <a href="http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo">http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo</a> .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Go to <a href="http://www.openfabrics.org">www.openfabrics.org</a> to learn the goals, agenda, registration, travel and hotel information.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The OFA’s RDMA software (OFS), following its highly successful deployment amongst the worldwide HPC user and vendor community, is now gaining widespread recognition and adoption in Enterprise, Web and Cloud Data Center infrastructures. Implementation of RDMA offers the potential to speed up obtaining results, reduce CPU utilization and enable unlimited scalability of computing, fabric and storage for Big Data and Analytic Applications, both locally and across global distances.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The OFA recognizes the scope and range of APIs (e.g. MPIs, Sockets, Tools, etc.), OS, network/fabric, storage and file system uses and applications in which IT professionals and system administrators are deploying OFS/OFED. The Alliance believes that an active connected community of subject matter leaders/experts and users worldwide can significantly enhance learning, collaboration, experience and guidance by sharing information at workshops like this first one for the Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa and India regions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We look forward to you and your colleagues joining us at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory on September 24, 25 2012. Please contact Bill or Ronald below directly for more information and to become a leader of a subject/session at the workshop.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim, Bill and Ronald<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jim Ryan, Chair<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>jim.ryan@openfabrics.org<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bill Boas, Treasurer, 01.510.375.8840<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:bill.boas@openfabrics.org">bill.boas@openfabrics.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ronald Luijten, Host<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>lui@zurich.ibm.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.openfabrics.org">www.openfabrics.org</a>”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>