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Industry Memberships and Affiliations
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.
Blade.org
Blade.org is the premier open community dedicated to creating solutions based on the blade server platform pioneered by IBM and Intel. The organization was established in February 2006 to increase the number of blade platform solutions and accelerate the process of bringing them to market. From eight founding companies, Blade.org has grown to over 80 members including leading blade hardware and software providers, developers, distribution partners and end users from around the globe.
Distributed Management Task Force
With more than 3,500 active participants, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is the industry organization leading the development of management standards and the promotion of interoperability for enterprise and Internet environments. DMTF standards provide common management infrastructure components for instrumentation, control and communication in a platform-independent and technology neutral way. DMTF standards include the Common Information Model (CIM), communication/control protocols like Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) initiative.
Ethernet Alliance
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 Green Grid
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. In furtherance of its mission, The Green Grid is focused on the following: defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics; developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve data center performance against the defined metrics; and promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The IEEE, 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.
Fibre Channel Industry Association
The FCIA 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.
Financial Services Grid Initiative
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.
Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT)
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.
Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
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.
Open MPI
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.
PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
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
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.
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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.
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