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Presentations and Collaborative Sessions Will Emphasize How InfiniBand Delivers the Lowest Latency of Any Industry-Standard Interconnect Technology Resulting in a Positive Return on Investment for End Users: The InfiniBand Trade Association and the OpenFabrics Alliance today announced that an InfiniBand Low Latency Technical Forum has been planned for September 17 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, in co-location with the Fall 2007 Intel Developer Forum (IDF). The technical forum will bring together members from these two industry associations, along with the broader InfiniBand community. The technical forum will include presentations and collaborative sessions that examine latency in high-performance computing, storage and enterprise environments and will emphasize how end-user deployments of InfiniBand technology result in a positive return on investment. InfiniBand delivers the lowest latency of any industry-standard interconnect technology available, resulting in increased productivity gains and return on investment for large-scale enterprises – such as those in financial services, automotive, manufacturing, oil and gas, data warehousing and media – as well as scientific and academic environments. The InfiniBand Low Latency Technical Forum will look at advances along each point of the network – from end users to processors/chipsets, I/O and switches. Specific sessions will include presentations from hardware vendors, application providers, operating system vendors and end users. According to a recent IDC report by Stephen Josselyn and Lucinda Borovick, "InfiniBand provides a way to share I/O interconnects across multiple servers and to unify and minimize the compute fabric in the datacenter, reducing complexity and operating costs, while providing the high bandwidth and low latency needed for data clusters, highly computational environments, and similar workloads. The move to virtualized server and I/O infrastructure within many datacenters today will expand the need for an interconnect technology like InfiniBand."