[ofw] OpenFabrics Workshop - Early Bird deadline Feb. 28

[Jeffrey Scott]

The 6th Annual International Sonoma Workshop is set for March 14-17 at The
Lodge at Sonoma.  The event is open to all -- members and non-members alike.
Click  <http://www.OpenFabrics.org> here to see the preliminary agenda,
register for the workshop AND make your reservation at The Lodge.
Registration for the Sonoma Workshop costs $595.  The Early Bird rate of
$495 is available through February 28, 2010.  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  <http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=192395>
here.

 

The goal of the workshop is to plan the next steps in the evolution of
OpenFabrics Software (OFED) based on real-world customer experiences and
vendor input.  The theme of the workshop is "Exascale to Enterprise,"
indicating the range of IT applications that can be accelerated with OFED's
energy and resource-efficient RDMA and kernel-bypass architectures for both
high-performance computing sites and enterprise datacenters. Customer
technologists, OFED developers and product managers will share their
experiences with OFED during the workshop.

 

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-efficiency computing.
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.

 

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 14th.  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.

 

The Sonoma Workshop provides attendees with invaluable networking
opportunities where they are able to make connections and deepen
relationships with a targeted group of professionals from many
organizations, including end users, server and storage OEMs, switch and
adapter providers, cable and connector vendors, and the core team of OFED
developers.  This workshop is all about helping you prepare for the exciting
changes in computing and networking that this new decade of the 21st century
will bring.  The Lodge at Sonoma is a world-class resort and spa in Sonoma
Valley, less than an hour north of San Francisco in the California wine
country.  The Alliance has special hotel rates for the workshop, but space
is limited so click  <http://www.OpenFabrics.org> here to sign up soon!

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