<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="cid:ii_1697301137@png"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">OpenFabrics Alliance Launches Sunfish™ to Provide an Open-Source Approach for Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure Management</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: red;"> </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: red;"> </strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">The </span><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA)</a><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> is excited to announce the launch of OFA Sunfish™ – an open-source framework to help simplify the development of Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) cloud and HPC architectures. Formerly the OpenFabrics Management Framework (OFMF), t</span>he Sunfish projec
t is a collaboration between the OFA and its partners the <a href="https://www.computeexpresslink.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CXL™ Consortium</a>, <a href="https://www.dmtf.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DMTF</a>, and <a href="https://www.snia.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SNIA</a> to provide elements of an overall solution to address limits on provisioning and computational efficiency, hardware operating costs, and energy consumption of integrated and siloed systems.</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Using <a href="https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DMTF Redfish®</a> and <a href="https://www.snia.org/forums/smi/swordfish" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SNIA Swordfish™</a> manageability to provide a standards-based interface, Sunfish
is designed to configure fabric interconnects and manage composable disaggregated heterogeneous hardware resources in dynamic datacenter infrastructures using client-friendly abstractions.</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">As a new open-source composable computing system framework, Sunfish offers a unified set of tools to control and monitor computing resources accessed over multiple network fabric types. With Sunfish, clients will have the ability to interact with distributed resources and connect fabrics to automate orchestration and maintain large-scale parallel and distributed computing systems. </p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">Visit the </span><a href="https://www.openfabrics.org/openfabrics-management-framework/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sunfish page</a><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);
"> on our website to learn more about the industry’s efforts around Sunfish and to access valuable details on Use Cases and how to get stated. </span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><strong style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"><em>Sunfish makes a splash at SNIA Storage Developer Conference (SDC’23) </em></strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">At the recent </span><a href="https://storagedeveloper.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SDC’23</a><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> – held September 18-21 in Fremont, CA – Russ Herrell of member company HPE presented on Sunfish and how it plays an important part in helping the industry overcome the challenges of running composable disaggregated infrastructures
.</span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">If you were unable to attend SDC’23, keep an eye on the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SNIAVideo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SNIA YouTube Channel</a><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);"> to view a recording of the session,</span> <span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">“</span><a href="https://storagedeveloper.org/events/agenda/session/555" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" data-original-title="" title="">Sunfish Open Source Management for Composable Disaggregated Infrastructures</a>”, <span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);">for a deep-dive on Sunfish as well as a live </span>demonstration of the Sunfish reference implementation.</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-heig
ht: 1.231;"><strong><em>More on tap for OFA and Sunfish at Supercomputing Conference 2023 (SC’23) </em></strong></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">The OFA is excited to once again participate in the Open Standards Pavilion at SC’23 – taking place November 12-17 in Denver, CO. Experts will be on hand at the kiosk to showcase a demo of Sunfish and discuss other OFA initiatives such as the Fabric Software Development Platform (FSDP) and OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI). <span style="color: black;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Furthermore, the OFA will have a representative presenting on Sunfish at both the BUG23 and RESDIS23 during the week of SC23.</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">
Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks.</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;">Contact <a href="mailto:press@openfabrics.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press@openfabrics.org</a> with any questions.</p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1.231;"><br></p><br><style data-iframe-mode="simple">.ql-align-left{text-align:left}.ql-align-center{text-align:center}.ql-align-right{text-align:right}p{margin:0;padding:0;line-height:1.231;}blockquote{margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px solid #ccc!important;padding-left:1ex} </style>