Past Meeting
Thursday, October 18 - Dr. David Isaman on Infiniband Technology at Sun Microsystems
The San Diego Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will meet at 6:30PM at the San Diego office of Sun Microsystems in the UTC area at 9540 Towne Center Drive, Building SAN05. The program will feature Dr. David Isaman of Sun Microsystems talking about Infiniband[tm]. The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, call (858) 452-8701. Directions.
Please Note: In order to obtain a head count, it is essential that you let us know if you plan to attend. Please call (858) 452-8701 or email sdacm@acm.org, and let us know how many will be attending.
We are extremely pleased to have the sponsorship of Sun Microsystems for this event, and very excited to have Dr. Isaman speaking. The lecture should be a don't-miss ... we hope to see you there!
Infiniband[tm] Architecture (IB) is a new specification for a common channel-based, switched-fabric I/O technology. It is based on the collective research, knowledge, and experience of the industry's leaders. The presentation will begin by examining the paradigm shift in I/O architecture that IB embodies. The IB services and their programming interface are described next, followed by brief descriptions of the physical, link, and transport layers. The talk will end with a discussion of IB management, security, reliability, availability, and serviceability issues.
Dr. David Isaman has over 20 years of experience as a computer architect in the areas of processor design and local area network protocols. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T. After three years on the UCSD Computer Science faculty, he joined Burroughs Corp. (now Unisys) in Rancho Bernardo, where he developed the link-layer protocols for a high-speed LAN integrating voice and data on the same cable. From there he moved to Scientific Computer Systems in San Diego, writing the firmware for a token-passing ring I/O interconnect and specifying a complete protocol suite for a distributed I/O subsystem. From SCS he went to Metaflow Technologies, where for nine years he worked on the architecture and implementation of superscalar out-of-order SPARC and Pentium-II microprocessor clones. He joined Sun Microsystems in 1999.
