The OpenIB(TM) Alliance, an industry association founded to develop an open software stack for InfiniBand architecture on Linux, today announced the software stack was accepted by the Linux kernel community into the kernel.org repository. This will enable a single InfiniBand open source software environment for Linux customers who require a robust, resilient and manageable infrastructure for data center, grid and high performance computing.

"We are well aware of the tremendous industry interest in a common Linux software stack for InfiniBand and designed these drivers to the rigid requirements of the Linux kernel community," said Roland Dreier, a developer for the Alliance at Topspin Communications, Inc. "In addition to efforts by my company, I want to recognize the other Alliance members, Voltaire and Intel, as well as customers Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, for this achievement."

"With our first goal completed, the OpenIB Alliance can now focus on the upper level protocols and APIs to ensure the wide adoption of the Infiniband architecture in data centers and clusters for high-performance, enterprise and grid computing," said Jim Ryan, marketing manager at Intel Corporation and chairman of the OpenIB Alliance.

Developers Workshop Feb. 6-9

The OpenIB Alliance announced it will host the first Developers Workshop at The Lodge at Sonoma, February 6-9. Participation is open to all interested parties, including non-members, with a registration fee of $395.

Session topics include:

-- On-going development of the OpenIB software stack.

-- The proposed OpenIB software architecture including support of open RDMA protocols and APIs.

-- Discussion by customers, vendors and developers of their requirements and directions for OpenIB software development.

-- The Department of Energy National Labs update on the OpenIB PathForward project.

-- OpenIB Alliance Annual General and Board of Directors meetings.

-- To register visit www.openib.org and click on Workshop.

About the OpenIB Alliance

The OpenIB Alliance is an industry association chartered to deliver a single open source Linux-based software stack for deploying InfiniBand. Founded in June 2004, the OpenIB Alliance is comprised of technology vendors and end user organizations including Dell; Engenio Information Technologies, Inc.; InfiniCon; Intel; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Linux Networx; Mellanox Technologies; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Network Appliance; Oracle; Sandia National Laboratories; Silicon Graphics, Inc.; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Topspin Communications; Veritas; and Voltaire. Membership is open to all companies with an interest in developing a common Linux implementation for InfiniBand and other open RDMA deployments. More information about the OpenIB Alliance is available at www.openib.org.