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Mellanox is very active in the industry and is proud to have associations with the following institutions.
Founded in 1999, the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) is comprised of leading enterprise IT vendors including Agilent, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SilverStorm, Intel, Mellanox, Network Appliance, Oracle, Sun, Topspin and Voltaire. The organization completed its first specification in October 2000. In the past 12 months all major system vendors have announced InfiniBand products and hundreds of products have completed interoperability testing and are commercially available.
OpenFabrics Alliance develops transport agnostic open source software for RDMA fabric technologies. Founded in June 2004 as the OpenIB Alliance to develop a Linux-based InfiniBand software stack, the organization has expanded its charter to support iWARP (RDMA over Ethernet). The OpenFabrics Alliance provides tools, communications and resources for vendors and developers to create, refine and publish standard open source software stacks for RDMA capable data center fabrics.
The Ethernet Alliance mission is to promote industry awareness, acceptance and advancement of technology and products based on both existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards and their management.
The IEEE, (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.), a non-profit organization, is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE promotes the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing, and applying knowledge about electro and information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession.
The FCIA (Fibre Channel Industry Association) is a mutual benefit non-profit international organization of manufacturers, system integrators, developers, vendors, industry professionals and end users. The FCIA is committed to delivering a broad base of Fibre Channel infrastructure technology to support a wide array of applications within the mass storage and IT-based arenas. FCIA working groups and committees focus on specific aspects of the technology, targeting both vertical and horizontal markets including data storage, video, networking and storage area networking (SAN) management.
The FSGI was developed to provide a utility platform for financial service companies based upon the use of grid technologies as a utility resource. The initiative is open to all hardware vendors, software vendors and third party software houses.
The goals of the Financial Services Grid Initiative are to enable organisations to maximise the use of their computer resources in a cost effective and secure manner.
The IGT is a non-profit organization of leading vendors, ISVs, customers and academia, focused on knowledge sharing and networking for developing Enterprise Grid solutions. It is open, independent and vendor-neutral. Focused on Grid technologies, the IGT provides frameworks of conferences, work groups, a Grid lab and a knowledge center for business and technology networking. It enhances the business and technologies opportunities in terms of joint projects, knowledge sharing, Grid market awareness, training and learning from others experiences.
The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (Once known as the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council), is the semiconductor engineering standardization body of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA), a trade association that represents all areas of the electronics industry.
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society.
Open MPI is a project combining technologies and resources from several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI) in order to build the best MPI library available. A completely new MPI-2 compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers.
PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group) is a consortium of over 450 companies who collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecommunications and industrial computing applications. The members of the consortium have a long history of developing leading edge products for these industries. PICMG specifications include CompactPCI® for Eurocard, rackmount applications and PCI/ISA for passive backplane, standard format cards.
PCI-SIG (Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group) is committed to the development and enhancement of the PCI standard. Crediting its success to the commitment of more than 900 members, the PCI-SIG strives to provide these members with the resources they need to remain competitive.
The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) specification defines a new model for the interface between operating systems and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader. Together, these provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.
The Unified EFI Forum is the group responsible for developing, managing and promoting the UEFI specification.