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High Performance Computing Industry Press Releases

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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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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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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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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