Curtiss-Wright Joins OpenFabrics Alliance

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VPX, OpenVPX, VME, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged, deployed defense and aerospace market, has joined the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA).

OFA develops, tests, licenses and distributes the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) cross-platform, open-source software for high-performance, low-latency and energy-efficient computing. Support for OFED will provide Curtiss-Wright’s Continuum HPEC (High Performance Embedded Computing) customers with software that can be easily leveraged from platform generation to platform generation, and enables rapid code migration from commercial HPC-based systems, such as high-end workstations and blade servers, to rugged HPEC computer systems designed for defense and aerospace applications.

“Curtiss-Wright’s HPEC systems deliver supercomputing processing performance in rugged, compact deployable system architectures optimized for harsh military environments,” said Lynn Bamford, Vice President and General Manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Joining the OpenFabrics Alliance enables our HPEC-Center of Excellence (HPEC-COE) to provide our customers with the most advanced open architecture software designed especially for high performance computing, maximizing interoperability and speeding time to market.”

“We are excited to welcome Curtiss-Wright as OFA’s newest member,” said Jim Ryan, Chair of the OFA. “Curtiss-Wright is leveraging wireless industry silicon to provide RapidIO OFED capability to the HPEC market place. Their HPEC-COE provides non-proprietary low-latency, high bandwidth processor system solutions to embedded defense and aerospace customers. The OpenFabrics Alliance looks to its members to help drive the future and ongoing development of OFED. Curtiss-Wright Controls will be a valuable member as we continue momentum.”

OFED is an open source software middleware that abstracts fabrics and operating systems from middleware, operating system command calls, and customer applications. OFED is an open standard body created by the OpenFabrics Alliance, with many contributors across the industry. OFED supports multiple fabrics such as Serial RapidIO and Ethernet, and supports multiple operating systems including LINUX and Windows.

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