OpenFabrics Alliance Announces the Agenda for Its 11th Annual Developer Workshop

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) announces the agenda for its 11^th Annual International OpenFabrics Software Developers' Workshop being held on March 15-18 at the Monterey Marriott. The workshop, which includes talks on many additional capabilities being included in the OpenFabrics Software (OFS), is open to any person interested in learning about or contributing to higher performance data motion and IOPS, extreme scalability and emerging software architectures.

The agenda begins Sunday evening with a keynote talk by Katie Antypas of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on application architectures for manycore computing followed by a reception hosted by the Alliance.

Monday opens with an address by Jim Ryan, OFA Chairman, and Paul Grun, Vice-chairman. Monday morning sessions include Sean Hefty of Intel introducing the new OpenFabrics Interface (OFI) libraries and Cisco's Jeff Squyres presenting the use of OFI by OpenMPI, highlighting the focus on achieving application performance using OpenFabrics networking software. Monday afternoon includes talks by Intel's Dave Minturn and HP's Doug Voigt on NVMe and the SNIA programming model and Bob Pearson of Cray on Burst Buffers, presenting NVM from a networking perspective. Also on Monday, Tom Talpey of Microsoft will also offer an update on its application of RDMA technologies. A highlight on Monday is the US National Laboratories' OpenFabrics Forum, an opportunity for the labs to discuss their use and requirement of OFS. The day is capped by the Alliance's annual meeting.

Tuesday opens with a keynote by Pavel Shamis from Oakridge National Lab. Sessions include the work being done in the new OpenFabrics Verbs working group and new features for Virtualization and Bonding Drivers from Liran Liss, Mellanox, and Virtual Devices and Workloads from Parav Pandit of Emulex. The afternoon includes updates on Rapid I/O from Rick O'Connor, NFS over RDMA from Shirley Ma of Oracle and SoC architectures and implementations from Dave Donofrio from Intel Labs.

Wednesday opens with a keynote by Matt Leininger from Lawrence Livermore National Lab followed by a panel discussion among Linux distributors Red Hat, SUSE and others, sessions on Lustre's future capabilities and an overview of the Internet of Things from Guy AlLee of Intel. The workshop will close with a session charting the course of the Alliance over the next year based on findings produced at the workshop.

The Developers' Workshop is followed by the OpenFabrics Software User Group Workshop, dedicated to the advancement in knowledge and experience of IT managers and system administrators responsible for RDMA fabrics.

Registration and Lodging Information

Registration will be $695 per person (plus a $9.95 online service fee). Lodging for the workshop is provided by Monterey Marriott. Click here to view the agenda and to find registration and accommodations information.

About the OpenFabrics Alliance

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is a 501(c) (6) non-profit company that develops, tests, licenses and distributes the OpenFabrics Software (OFS) – multi-platform, high-performance, low-latency and energy-efficient open-source RDMA software. OpenFabrics Software is used in business, operational, research and scientific infrastructures that require fast fabrics/networks, efficient storage and low-latency computing. OFS is free and is included in major Linux distributions, as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2012. In addition to developing and supporting this RDMA software, the Alliance delivers training, workshops and interoperability testing to ensure all releases meet multivendor enterprise requirements for security, reliability and efficiency. For more information about the OFA, visit www.openfabrics.org.