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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>How Will the Winds of
Change Affect Datacenters, HPC and You? </span></font></i></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Find out by
attending OFA’s 5<sup>th</sup> Annual International Sonoma Workshop,
March 22-25. Click <a
href="http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=173845">here to register</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:6.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Change wasn’t only a political
theme in 2008; change came to enterprise datacenters, application
implementations and high-performance computing (HPC) with the deployment of
low-latency switches and server adapters running <b><i><span style='font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>OpenFabrics software </span></i></b>in Linux and
Windows production environments.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Even bigger changes are in the wind as 2009 begins.
OpenFabrics software is already in production at over 50 percent of the
world’s top 100 HPC sites, including the #1 site. And now,
mainstream IT organizations are deploying OpenFabrics software to boost
application performance and take their datacenter operations to the next level
with 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 40 Gigabit InfiniBand.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:6.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This year’s Sonoma Workshop will
focus on the implications of this sea change for datacenter management, HPC
productivity, business innovation, and <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>your career</span></i></b>. <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>You should attend </span></i></b>if
you want to understand how OpenFabrics software can<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>help:</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.35pt;text-indent:-9.35pt'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Increase
the performance of enterprise applications for financial services, engineering,
manufacturing, and content delivery in web and cloud environments;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.35pt;text-indent:-9.35pt'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Enable IT
cost reduction through green computing and virtualization;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.35pt;text-indent:-9.35pt'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- <font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>F</span></font>uture-proof and stabilize
your applications in the face of huge changes taking place in memory,
processors, storage, interconnects, and networking;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.35pt;text-indent:-9.35pt'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Maximize
the flexibility of your enterprise datacenter to more effectively support and
enable business innovation, productivity growth and cost containment; and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:45.35pt;text-indent:-9.35pt'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Transform
HPC environments by eliminating barriers to the economical deployment of
petascale ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The OpenFabrics Alliance is the worldwide
focal point for high-performance, connectivity-related software
development. T</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>his year’s Sonoma workshop will
not only <font color=black><span style='color:black'>help attendees understand
the impact that widespread adoption of </span></font>OpenFabrics software will
have, i<font color=black><span style='color:black'>t will also </span></font>give
attendees practical knowledge about how to deploy and use the software in
standard Linux and Windows environments.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-2.25pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Attendees will have the opportunity
to talk with vendors as well as OpenFabrics software developers, and discuss
real-world requirements for applications that use technologies such as
datacenter Ethernet, Fibre Channel, MPI, NAS, SAN, and sockets as well as
databases and cluster file systems<font color=red><span style='color:red'>.
</span></font>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sonoma</st1:City></st1:place>
agenda will include presentations from end users, application and hardware
vendors, OS providers, developers, and much more. This year’s
agenda<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'> is about helping
you</span></i></b> prepare yourself and your organization for the exciting
changes that are coming.<font color=red><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=173845">Register
now</a> for the 5<sup>th</sup> Annual International <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Sonoma</st1:City></st1:place> Workshop. <b><i><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>The Early Bird rate of $495 is
available through February 23.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></font></p>
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