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[Bill Boas]

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2005 OpenIB Developers Workshop – The Lodge at Sonoma, February 6-9

The OpenIB Alliance is holding its first Development Workshop at The Lodge 
at Sonoma from February 6-9, 2005. The workshop is open to everyone 
interested in the work of the OpenIB Alliance – see 
<http://www.openib.org/>www.openib.<http://www.openib.org/>org to register 
for the Workshop and make hotel reservations at the Lodge at the workshop 
rates.

If you wish to spend the weekend of Feb 5/6 at the hotel, or stay a day or 
two beyond the 9th some rooms are available at the same rates. However you 
must reserve rooms with the codes assigned by the hotel, available through 
links to the hotel from www.openib.org, to qualify for those rates.

The cost to register for the workshop is $395. The program will have these 
major sessions:
    * developers discussing  the OpenIB kernel-level software submitted to 
kernel.org, its current status and proposed evolution;
    * developers discussing the proposed OpenIB software architecture and 
plans for additional modules to complete a full Linux open software stack 
for enterprise and high performance computing deployments including 
underlying capabilities for Infiniband and other RDMA protocols such as 
IT-API and DAPL;
    * customers, vendors and developers discussing their requirements and 
road map for the OpenIB software development,
    * compliance, integration, hardening, scaling and resilience of the 
stack for inclusion in Linux distributions;
    * integration of the OpenIB stack in software and applications for 
Enterprise and HPC server, blade, cluster, storage and embedded systems;
    * the DOE Labs and their partners describing the OpenIB PathForward 
project - see 
http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2004/NR-04-11-03.html;
    * OpenIB Alliance membership Annual General and Board meetings to elect 
directors and discuss Alliance activities for 2005.
The Workshop outline is below:

Feb 6
    * Workshop registration in the lobby at the Lodge from 4 PM
    * Reception and cash Bar in the Stone Room from 5 to 7.30 PM
Feb 7
    * Keynotes on HPC and Enterprise, OpenIB Software Roadmap
    * Software, Market Development and Birds of Feather parallel sessions
    * OpenIB Alliance Annual General Meeting, election of Directors for 2005
Feb 8
    * OpenIB Alliance Board Meeting
    * Software, Market Development and Birds of Feather parallel sessions
Feb 9
    * Quality Assurance and Testing Panel
    * OpenIB Alliance Plans for 2005
    * Workshop Wrap Up by 11.00 AM
The Workshop team is working on the details of the tracks and sessions 
which will be posted as soon as possible. Please make suggestions to the 
team as you register on the web for the workshop if you wish.

Workshop Team: Chair – Bill Boas; Treasurer – Jim Ryan
Software Developer Track – Bob Woodruff, Matt Leininger, Phil Murphy, Ross 
Schibler
Market Development and Applications Track – Chris Eddington, David Ford, 
Asaf Somekh



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