Global member organization dedicated to developing, maintaining and furthering the InfiniBand specification
• Architecture definition
– RDMA software architecture
– InfiniBand, up to 100Gb/s and 300Gb/s per port
– RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• Compliance and interoperability testing of commercial products
• Markets and promotes InfiniBand/RoCE
– Online, marketing and public relations engagements
– IBTA-sponsored technical events and resources
InfiniBand Trade Association
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Steering committee members
InfiniBand Architecture History
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Volume 1 – General Specification Volume 2 – Physical Specification
• Scalability
–Deeper visibility into switch hierarchy
– Improved diagnostic mechanisms for quicker response
time and smaller impact on overall network
• Management
–More diagnostic information on cables and network
statistics
– Added counters for EDR
Volume 1 Release 1.3
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Moving forward towards Exascale
IBTA Members
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3M
Advanced Photonics, Inc.
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Amphenol Interconnect Products
Anritsu
Applied Micro
Bay Microsystems
Broadcom
Bull SAS
Cisco
ConnPro Industries Inc.
Cray, Inc.
Emulex
FCI USA Inc.
Finisar Corporation
Foxconn
Fujikura America, Inc.
Fujitsu Limited
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Intel Corporation
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Lorom Cable & System Design
LUXSHARE-ICT Co., Ltd.
Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
Meritec
Microsoft
Molex Inc.
Netronome
Network Appliance
Oracle
QLogic
SAE Magnetics (HK) Ltd.
Samtec
Semtech
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Software Forge, Inc.
Sumitomo Electric Industries
TE Connectivity
Tektronix
The Siemon Company
UNH InterOperability Lab
Unisys Corporation
Volex Inc.
Woodward McCoach, Inc.
Yamaichi Electronics USA
BOLD = Steering Committee member