The 6th Annual International Sonoma Workshop is set for March 14-17 at The Lodge at Sonoma. The event is open to all -- members and non-members alike. Click <http://www.OpenFabrics.org> here to see the preliminary agenda, register for the workshop AND make your reservation at The Lodge. Registration for the Sonoma Workshop costs $595. The Early Bird rate of $495 is available through February 28, 2010. If you would like to participate in the workshop but are unable to be there in person, there will be a live WebEx feed. Pricing and registration information for our WebEx service is available <http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=192395> here.
The goal of the workshop is to plan the next steps in the evolution of OpenFabrics Software (OFED) based on real-world customer experiences and vendor input. The theme of the workshop is "Exascale to Enterprise," indicating the range of IT applications that can be accelerated with OFED's energy and resource-efficient RDMA and kernel-bypass architectures for both high-performance computing sites and enterprise datacenters. Customer technologists, OFED developers and product managers will share their experiences with OFED during the workshop. OFED, which runs in Linux and Windows environments, is now in production at over 60 percent of the world's top 100 HPC sites, and mainstream IT organizations are embracing OFED for its ability to support sub-microsecond latencies, wire-speed data transfers, and ultra-high-efficiency computing. Talks at Sonoma will discuss the use of several open-source middleware packages (e.g., AMQP, AppScale, Eucalyptus, Lustre, MPI, NFS, RDS) that enable cluster computing, web services, data warehousing, and financial applications that leverage OFED and multi-gigabit fabrics. Barney Maccabe and Steve Poole from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home of the world's #1 system, will give the opening keynote at 7.30 p.m. on Sunday, March 14th. Their presentation will focus on requirements for exascale systems. Other topics covered during the Workshop will include data warehousing, distributed systems for advanced search and visualization, oil and gas exploration, cloud computing, hybrid and multi-core architectures, fast messaging for financial services, and much more. The Sonoma Workshop provides attendees with invaluable networking opportunities where they are able to make connections and deepen relationships with a targeted group of professionals from many organizations, including end users, server and storage OEMs, switch and adapter providers, cable and connector vendors, and the core team of OFED developers. This workshop is all about helping you prepare for the exciting changes in computing and networking that this new decade of the 21st century will bring. The Lodge at Sonoma is a world-class resort and spa in Sonoma Valley, less than an hour north of San Francisco in the California wine country. The Alliance has special hotel rates for the workshop, but space is limited so click <http://www.OpenFabrics.org> here to sign up soon!
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