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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The
6<SUP>th</SUP> Annual International Sonoma Workshop <SPAN
class=115553903-24022010><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000>is set
for</FONT> </FONT></SPAN>March 1<SPAN class=115553903-24022010>4-1</SPAN>7
at The Lodge at <ns0:place w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:insAuthor="Unknown"><ns0:City w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:insAuthor="Unknown"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Sonoma</st1:City></ns0:City></st1:place></ns0:place>.<SPAN
class=146283620-12022010> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The event is open to
all -- members and non-members alike. C</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">lick </SPAN><U><FONT
color=#0070c0><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #0070c0; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A
href="http://www.OpenFabrics.org"><FONT color=red size=2><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">here</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN></FONT></U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> to see the
preliminary agenda, register for the workshop AND make your reservation
at The Lodge. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Registration for the Sonoma Workshop costs $595.
<SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><U>The Early Bird rate of
$495 is available through February 28, 2010</U>.<SPAN
class=146283620-12022010> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN class=146283620-12022010>If
you would like to participate in the workshop but are unable to be there in
person, there will be a live WebEx feed. Pricing and registration
information for our WebEx service is available <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #0070c0; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A
href="http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=192395"><FONT color=red
size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">here</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT
color=#000000>.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<DIV>
<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 6pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
class=146283620-12022010></SPAN></SPAN> </P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=146283620-12022010></SPAN><o:p>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.85in 0pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2><IMG
style="WIDTH: 178px; HEIGHT: 154px" hspace=12 align=left
src="cid:146283620@12022010-129D" width=199 height=180
v:shapes="_x0000_s1026">The goal of the workshop is to plan the next steps in
the evolution of <SPAN class=146283620-12022010>OpenFabrics Software
(</SPAN>OFED<SPAN class=146283620-12022010>)</SPAN> based on real-world customer
experiences and<SPAN class=146283620-12022010> </SPAN>vendor input. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The theme of the workshop is “Exascale to
Enterprise,” indicating the range of IT applications that can be accelerated
with OFED’s<SPAN class=146283620-12022010> </SPAN>energy and resource-efficient
RDMA and kernel-bypass architectures for both high-performance computing sites
and enterprise datacenters<SPAN class=146283620-12022010>. </SPAN>Customer
technologists, OFED developers and product managers will share their experiences
with OFED during the
workshop.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 6pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 65.7pt 0pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=386572104-24022010><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 65.7pt 0pt 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2>OFED, which runs in Linux and Windows environments, is
now in production at over 60 percent of the world’s top 100 HPC sites, and
mainstream IT organizations are embracing OFED for its ability to support
sub-microsecond latencies, wire-speed data transfers, and ultra-high<SPAN
class=315591806-16022010>-</SPAN>efficiency computing. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Talks at Sonoma will discuss the use of
several open-source middleware packages (e.g., AMQP, AppScale, Eucalyptus,
Lustre, MPI, NFS, RDS) that enable cluster computing, web services, data
warehousing, and financial applications that leverage OFED and multi-gigabit
fabrics.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></o:p></SPAN>
<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 6pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 6pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Barney Maccabe and Steve Poole from
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home of the world's #1 system,
will give the opening keynote at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday, March
14<SUP>th</SUP>. Their presentation will focus on requirements
for exascale systems. Other topics covered during the
Workshop will include data warehousing, distributed systems for advanced search
and visualization, oil and gas exploration, cloud computing, hybrid and
multi-core architectures, fast messaging for financial services, and much
more.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 6pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN class=146283620-12022010><FONT
color=#0000ff>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0.85in 0pt 0in" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black"><FONT
face=Arial>T</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face=Arial>he Sonoma Workshop provides attendees with invaluable networking
opportunities where</FONT> <SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT face=Arial>they are
able to make connections and deepen relationships with a targeted group of
professionals<SPAN class=146283620-12022010> from many organizations</SPAN>,
including end users, server and storage OEMs, switch and adapter providers,
cable and connector vendors, and the core team of OFED developers<SPAN
class=146283620-12022010>.
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This workshop<B><I><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> is all about helping
you</SPAN></I></B> prepare for the exciting changes in computing and networking
that this new decade of the 21<SUP>st</SUP> century will bring. <SPAN
style="COLOR: black">The <A
style="mso-comment-reference: O_1; mso-comment-date: 20100122T0817">Lodge at
</A></SPAN><ns0:City w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:insAuthor="Unknown"><SPAN style="mso-comment-continuation: 1"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Sonom<SPAN class=146283620-12022010>a
i</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></ns0:City></SPAN><![if !supportAnnotations]><![endif]><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">s a world-class resort
and spa in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><ns0:PlaceName
w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:insAuthor="Unknown"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Sonoma</SPAN></ns0:PlaceName><SPAN style="COLOR: black">
</SPAN><ns0:PlaceType w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:insAuthor="Unknown"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Valley</SPAN></ns0:PlaceType><SPAN style="COLOR: black">,
less than an hour north of </SPAN><ns0:City w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:endInsAuthor="Unknown" w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z"
w:insAuthor="Unknown"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">San
Francisco</SPAN></ns0:City><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> in the </SPAN><ns0:place
w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:insAuthor="Unknown"><ns0:State
w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:insAuthor="Unknown"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">California</SPAN></ns0:State></ns0:place><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> wine country. The </SPAN><ns0:City
w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:insAuthor="Unknown"><ns0:place
w:endInsDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:endInsAuthor="Unknown"
w:insDate="2010-02-12T08:25:00Z" w:insAuthor="Unknown"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Alliance</SPAN></ns0:place></ns0:City><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> has special hotel rates for the workshop, but space is
limited so click<FONT color=#ff0000> </FONT><A
href="http://www.OpenFabrics.org"><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="COLOR: red; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">here</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT color=#ff0000>
</FONT><FONT color=#000000>to sign up soon!</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><![if !supportAnnotations]><![endif]><![if !supportAnnotations]><![endif]><![if !supportAnnotations]><![endif]><![if !supportAnnotations]><![endif]><![if !supportAnnotations]><![endif]></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>