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For the 2008 convention, check my blog.

This is a convention I went to from April 16^th-19^th, 2007.

It was held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. I also stayed in the Hyatt during this convention.

John Hufferd, Brocade Inc.

Spoke with Todd Burkey of Xiotech, who works with storage communications over InfiniBand.

Abbot Schindler, Hewlett Packard

Ron Emerick, Sun Microsystems
Paul Millard, Xyratex

Full Title: The InfiniBand Revolution: Parallel Computing is Out-Screaming High-Performance Clusters are in

Lloyd Dickman, Qlogic

Open Fabrics Alliance - working to bring about single fabric

Check out compute cluster IB Storage - Direct connect IB to storage, thus bypassing IO servers

IB Optical transcievers - 100m Length

QSFP pluggable modules - next generation

FC latency - 20µsec

Look up things on ISER technology - There appears to be nothing covering it at this conference.

Full title: 36 Gigaflops to 18 Teraflops in 30 days: Implementation of the Fastest Academic Supercomputer in the United Kingdom

Paul Calleja, University of Cambridge

Cambridge used MOAB for their scheduling software.

Exludus - prefetches data to local storage for use

Had many problems with 10gbit ethernet cards - eventually settled on Chelsio cards after much testing.

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