3rd Annual NJEDge Conference | "InfiniBand Technology Enables Grid Computing and Server Virtualization"

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CONFERENCE DATES
November 2-4 , 2005

CONFERENCE LOCATION
Harrison Conference Center & Hotel
900 Scudders Mill Road
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
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218 Central Ave
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Newark, NJ 07102
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Vendor Breakout Session: "InfiniBand Technology Enables Grid Computing and Server Virtualization"

"InfiniBand Technology Enables Grid Computing and Server Virtualization"

Matt Blythe, Product Management, Cisco Systems [bio] November 3, 2005, 5:00pm - 6:00pm

This two hour session will provide an introduction to 10Gbs, low latency InfiniBand technology as a data center server fabric and discuss its applicability for high performance clustering, grid computing, and for server virtualization. As an introduction to InfiniBand technology, this session will first compare and contrast InfiniBand with other standard and proprietary server interconnect technologies. The goal is a basic understanding of where InfiniBand fits in with other network technology. The session will next focus on applications that can leverage InfiniBand. The session will explore the protocols that can run on top of InfiniBand (including IP, MPI, Sockets (SDP), Storage (SRP), and UDAPL), and will discuss the pros and cons of each. For each protocol, we will highlight common applications that have shown tremendous performance gains using InfiniBand. Next the session will look beyond InfiniBand’s pure performance advantages and will explore its capabilities as a foundation for data center virtualization, grid, and utility computing environments providing a unifying server fabric with virtualization capabilities allowing all servers connected to the fabric to share common pools of I/O and storage resources. This part of the session will look at the economic benefits of data center consolidation and grid computing afforded by InfiniBand. Customer case studies will be presented for both grid computing and server virtualization.

Biography: Matt Blythe

Matt Blythe is responsible for technical product management for Cisco's InfiniBand switching infrastructure products. Matt has spoken extensively on high-performance and grid computing, and has architected some of the largest grids and clusters in the world, including a recent 4096-node supercomputing cluster for the Department of Energy. Matt Blythe has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.