1. www.openfabrics.org 2007 Sonoma Workshop April 30-May 2 Welcome Logistics and Agenda Review of the Alliance Goals of the Workshop

2. 2 www.openfabrics.org Logistics and Agenda  Confirmation letter, Program, Attendees List, Meeting Rooms, Food, Slides for Web  Workshop Team, Hotel Facilities, Internet Access, Power  Alliance Gets Everyone Together, has Annual General Meeting, Listen and learn  Key components  End Users provide experience and requirements  Linux Distros and Microsoft give feedback and plans  Tier 1 and 2 OEMs share status and strategies  IB and RDMA-E Systems and Chip companies  Developers, Contributors and Testers update status and plans for code, testing, releases (OFS & OFED), interoperability, Logo  What should the Alliance as a whole be doing next?

3. 3 www.openfabrics.org Review of the Alliance  Mutual Benefit Corporation – non-profit owned by members, for their mutual benefit, founded June 2004  Bylaws govern behavior and procedures, all volunteer, over and above day jobs, leave organization’s persona at the door  Officers – Chair, Jim Ryan; Vice-Chair, Bill Boas; Treasurer and Secretary, Johann George  Working Groups – Chairs and Vice Chairs  Executive (XWG) Officers + WG Chairs/Vice Chairs  Legal (LWG) – Dave Ford, Chet Mehta  Development – Bob Woodruff, TBD  Enterprise – Jamie Riotto, TBD  Interoperability – Tuan Phamdo, TBD  Marketing – Thad Omura, TBD  End User incl. HSIR – Asaf Somekh, Head Bubba  Coming to Sonoma for 6 years – DOE Sandia, OpenIB, OpenFabrics  Since Feb2006 – Open RDMA, OFED 1.1, iWARP, Fall IDF, Interop Events, SC 06, HLRS

4. 4 www.openfabrics.org Goals of Sonoma 2007  Renew and Improve Communication amongst us, learn from the Customer community we serve, introduce new members  End users tell us how we are doing so far with OFED1.1  Thoroughly Review Status of OFED 1.2  Learn what the Linux Distros and Microsoft think and what we need to change to make including OFED easier  Learn what Tier 1 and 2 OEM are doing and what we can do to help their adoption of OFED  Learn what IB and RDMA_E companies are doing and what we can do to help their further adoption of OFED  Discuss what Enterprise end user customers need to know and what service/support is necessary to have confidence adopting OFED  Evaluate and suggest improvements to Alliance operations – membership, promotion, development,…

5. 5 www.openfabrics.org Thank You to Our Sponsors  Help fund marketing and all other operations of OpenFabrics