Fall 2008

Upcoming Events:
•	OFA Interop Event, September 29 - October 3, University of New Hampshire
•	SC08, November 15-21, 2008 in Austin, TX
•	5th Annual Sonoma Workshop, March 22-26, 2009 in Sonoma, CA

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WinOF 2.0 is almost ready for prime time

Marketing Working Group has been busy

OFED 1.4 only a month away

Important interop events coming soon

WinOF 2.0 is almost ready for prime time
The release of WinOF 2.0 is coming soon and will include support for Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC Server 2008 (with support for Network Direct) and Vista. The periodic code builds that are the base for WinOF 2.0 have been well tested on large-scale systems (more than 1100 CPUs) to achieve the required stability, robustness and performance for enterprise-class and high-performance applications.

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Marketing Working Group has been busy
During the first half of 2008, the MWG organized the 4th Annual Sonoma Workshop.  The event attracted nearly 200 attendees and offered more than 40 sessions from end users, developers, hardware and software providers, and Operating System distributors.  The 5th Annual Sonoma Conference has already been scheduled for March 22-26, 2009.  The next big item on our calendar is SC08, slated for November 15-21. OFA is setting aside a portion of its SC08 booth for presentations by OFA members. Any member who would like to make a presentation should submit a proposal to Jeff Scott at jeff@splitrockpr.com. 

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OFED 1.4 only a month away
The next major release of OFED will be version 1.4.  The beta was made available on Aug 21.  You may download it at http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.4/.  General availability of OFED 1.4 is expected by the end of October.

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Important interop events coming soon
The most recent OFA Interop Event was held at University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab in March 2008.  The event encompassed products from both InfiniBand and iWARP vendors and included HCAs, RNICs, Switches, Gateways, SRP and iSER targets.  The next OFA Interop Event will commence on September 29, with products that successfully complete our tests earning the OFA Interoperability Logo.  The updated test plan is available at http://iol.unh.edu/ofatestplan.

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The OpenFabrics Alliance is developing a unified, open-source software stack for the two major RDMA fabric technologies -- InfiniBand and iWARP (also known as RDMA over Ethernet). The OpenFabrics Alliance is a not-for-profit organization.

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