Affiliations

Blade.org Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intel blade ecosystem. This organization is intended to create new solutions, maximizing the value of the blade platform. More information is available at www.blade.org.

Climate Savers Computing Initiative Started in June 2007 by Google and Intel, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations dedicated to promoting smart technologies that can improve the power efficiency and reduce the energy consumption of computers. Participating manufacturers commit to producing products that meet specified power-efficiency targets, and members commit to purchasing power-efficient computing products and using power management on their existing computers. The average desktop PC wastes nearly half the power delivered to it. With your help, this effort will lead to a 50 percent reduction in power consumption by computers by 2010, and committed participants could collectively save $5.5 billion in energy costs. For more information, visit www.climatesaverscomputing.org.

Ethernet Alliance The Ethernet Alliance was created to promote industry awareness, acceptance and advancement of technology and products based on existing and emerging IEEE 802 Ethernet standards. The organization accelerates industry adoption and removes barriers to market entry by providing a cohesive, market responsive, industry voice on IEEE 802 Ethernet projects. For more information, visit www.ethernetalliance.org.

IEEE The IEEE, a non-profit organization, is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE is a leading developer of international standards that underpin many of today's products and services, particularly in telecommunications, information technology and power generation. With an active portfolio of nearly 1,300 standards and projects under development, IEEE is increasingly the central source for standardization in a broad range of emerging technologies. For more information, visit the IEEE website at www.ieee.org.

IETF The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. For more information, visit www.ietf.org.

OpenFabrics Alliance The 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. For more information, visit www.openfabrics.org.

PCI-SIG The PCI-SIG is the Special Interest Group that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines and implements new industry standard I/O (Input/Output) specifications as the industry's local I/O needs evolve. The PCI Special Interest Group was formed in 1992, and the organization became a nonprofit corporation, officially named "PCI-SIG" in the year 2000. Currently, more than 900 industry-leading companies are active PCI-SIG members worldwide. For more information about the PCI-SIG, and PCI-SIG membership benefits, contact the PCI-SIG by phone, at (503) 291-2569 (within the United States), or by fax at (503) 297-1090, or visit the PCI-SIG Web site at http://www.pcisig.com.

UNH-IOL 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium The UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory) 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium is an industry-supported organization that works in conjunction with its member companies to provide a neutral test environment and industry accepted test methodologies for the purpose of promoting and fostering interoperability of 10 Gigabit Ethernet devices. In addition, the UNH-IOL 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium also works with the IEEE 802.3 Working Group to support the development of open interoperable standards for 10 Gigabit Ethernet. For more information, visit the UNH-IOL website at: www.iol.unh.edu.

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