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InfiniBand Continues Leadership on TOP500 with 17 Percent Growth; 39th InfiniBand and RoCE Plugfest Bring Record Turnout

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July 11, 2022

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to developing and furthering the adoption of RDMA technologies, today announced that InfiniBand grew 17 percent year-over-year, connecting 197 systems on the June 2022 TOP500 supercomputing list. InfiniBand also connects 62 of the Top100, making it the most used high-speed interconnect of the world’s top supercomputers.

InfiniBand’s prominent presence on the TOP500 is indicative of its ability to provide the speed, low latency and scalability that the world’s...

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UNH InterOperability Lab to Host 39th InfiniBand and RoCE Plugfest

April 5, 2022

April 5, 2022 - Durham, N.H.,-- The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance solutions for the networking industry, today announced they will be hosting the 39th Plugfest event for the InfiniBand & RoCE devices from May 2-6, 2022. This event will provide the opportunity to perform interoperability testing of selected RDMA/RoCE-based Ethernet switch systems and RNICS among a range of vendor switches and RoCE-based Ethernet NICs.

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Rohde & Schwarz partners with UNH-IOL to enhance high-speed Ethernet and InfiniBand compliance testing

April 27, 2021

Test and measurement specialist Rohde & Schwarz and the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) extend their ongoing collaboration to expand Ethernet and InfiniBand compliance testing. Both have pooled their expertise to provide methods of implementation (MOI) for precise, fast and error-free compliance testing of high-speed cables and backplanes in line with IEEE 802.3 (up to IEEE 802.3ck) and InfiniBand standards (up to rate designator HDR), using vector network analysis test equipment from Rohde & Schwarz.

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New RoCE Interoperability List Features Higher Test Speeds, Additional Vendors

August 25, 2016

August 24th, 2016 by Rupert Dance, IBTA Compliance & Interoperability Work Group Co-Chair -- It’s that time again! Having finalized the RDMA over Converged Ethernet ( RoCE ) test results from Plugfest 29, the IBTA is pleased to announce the availability of the new RoCE Interoperability List . Designed to support data center managers, CIOs and other IT decision makers with their planned RoCE deployments for enterprise and high performance computing, the...

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IBTA Plugfest 28 Results Highlight Expanded Ecosystem of InfiniBand EDR 100 Gb/s and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)

March 16, 2016

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand™ specification, today announced the availability of its October 2015 InfiniBand Combined Cable and Device Integrators' List and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) Interoperability List. Last October, Plugfest 28 attendees tested a variety of InfiniBand devices, including Host Channel Adapters (HCAs), switches, SCSI Remote Protocol (SRP) targets and cables. Of particular note, there was an increase in EDR 100 Gb/s InfiniBand products compared to...

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Open Networking Put To The Test

November 11, 2015

UNH-IOL plugfest produces list of interoperable combinations of networking gear based on Open Compute Project specs.

If you've been eyeing open networking but remain skeptical, operators of a testing initiative at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab hope to convince you otherwise.

The UNH-IOL recently published an Open Networking Integrators List, a public directory of validated, interoperable combinations of networking gear based on specifications from the Open Compute Project. The list shows the results of...

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IBTA Announces PF24 Results and Releases Updated Integrators

February 26, 2014

BEAVERTON, Ore. - February 25, 2014 - The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA), a global organization dedicated to maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand specification, today announced the availability of its October 2013 Combined Cable and Device Integrators' List. The updated Integrators' List is a compilation of all products that passed the InfiniBand compliance and interoperability requirements at the IBTA Plugfest 24 event in October 2013.

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