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<DIV><SPAN class=580303118-22012005><FONT face=Arial size=2>The following press
release went out 1/19 on Business Wire and was emailed to about 50 of the top
editors and analysts that track InfiniBand.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=580303118-22012005><FONT face=Arial size=2>We hope you are
making plans to attend this workshop, which promises to have a number of
informative technical and marketing oriented session, and which will set the
direction for OpenIB for the rest of the year.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=580303118-22012005><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you'd like more
information, please contact me or Bill Boas, the Workshop Chairman (<A
href="mailto:boas1@llnl.gov">boas1@llnl.gov</A>)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=580303118-22012005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, Jim Ryan,
Acting Chairman, OpenIB</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN class=t>The OpenIB Alliance Achieves Acceptance by Kernel.org for its
Linux Software Stack</SPAN><BR><SPAN class=tt>Wednesday January 19, 7:00 pm
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class=t2>OpenIB Developers Workshop February 6-9</SPAN>
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<DIV class=ar>SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2005--The OpenIB(TM) Alliance,
an industry association founded to develop an open software stack for InfiniBand
architecture on Linux, today announced the software stack was accepted by the
Linux kernel community into the kernel.org repository. This will enable a single
InfiniBand open source software environment for Linux customers who require a
robust, resilient and manageable infrastructure for data center, grid and high
performance computing.
<P>"We are well aware of the tremendous industry interest in a common Linux
software stack for InfiniBand and designed these drivers to the rigid
requirements of the Linux kernel community," said Roland Dreier, a developer for
the Alliance at Topspin Communications, Inc. "In addition to efforts by my
company, I want to recognize the other Alliance members, Voltaire and Intel, as
well as customers Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National
Laboratories, for this achievement."
<P>"With our first goal completed, the OpenIB Alliance can now focus on the
upper level protocols and APIs to ensure the wide adoption of the Infiniband
architecture in data centers and clusters for high-performance, enterprise and
grid computing," said Jim Ryan, marketing manager at Intel Corporation and
chairman of the OpenIB Alliance.
<P>Developers Workshop Feb. 6-9
<P>The OpenIB Alliance announced it will host the first Developers Workshop at
The Lodge at Sonoma, February 6-9. Participation is open to all interested
parties, including non-members, with a registration fee of $395.
<P>Session topics include:
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<LI>On-going development of the OpenIB software stack.
<LI>The proposed OpenIB software architecture including support of open RDMA
protocols and APIs.
<LI>Discussion by customers, vendors and developers of their requirements and
directions for OpenIB software development.
<LI>The Department of Energy National Labs update on the OpenIB PathForward
project.
<LI>OpenIB Alliance Annual General and Board of Directors meetings.
<LI>To register visit <A href="http://www.openib.org/">www.openib.org</A> and
click on Workshop. </LI></UL>
<P>About the OpenIB Alliance
<P>The OpenIB Alliance is an industry association chartered to deliver a single
open source Linux-based software stack for deploying InfiniBand. Founded in June
2004, the OpenIB Alliance is comprised of technology vendors and end user
organizations including Dell; Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.; InfiniCon;
Intel; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Linux Networx; Mellanox
Technologies; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Network Appliance; Oracle; Sandia
National Laboratories; Silicon Graphics, Inc.; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Topspin
Communications; Veritas; and Voltaire. Membership is open to all companies with
an interest in developing a common Linux implementation for InfiniBand and other
open RDMA deployments. More information about the OpenIB Alliance is available
at www.openib.org.
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