[openib-general] Press release on the upcoming workshop for OpenIB

[Ryan, Jim]

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.
 
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.
 
If you'd like more information, please contact me or Bill Boas, the
Workshop Chairman (boas1 at llnl.gov)
 
Thanks, Jim Ryan, Acting Chairman, OpenIB
jim.ryan at intel.com
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Press Release	 Source: The OpenIB Alliance	

The OpenIB Alliance Achieves Acceptance by Kernel.org for its Linux
Software Stack
Wednesday January 19, 7:00 pm ET 
	
OpenIB Developers Workshop February 6-9 

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. 

"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." 

"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. 

Developers Workshop Feb. 6-9 

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. 

Session topics include: 

*	On-going development of the OpenIB software stack. 
*	The proposed OpenIB software architecture including support of
open RDMA protocols and APIs. 
*	Discussion by customers, vendors and developers of their
requirements and directions for OpenIB software development. 
*	The Department of Energy National Labs update on the OpenIB
PathForward project. 
*	OpenIB Alliance Annual General and Board of Directors meetings. 
*	To register visit www.openib.org <http://www.openib.org/>  and
click on Workshop. 

About the OpenIB Alliance 

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. 
*	Names and titles are property of their respective owners. 

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