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         APPLICATION LEVEL DAPL TESTING IS FOCUS OF DAT
       COLLABORATIVE LATEST SUCCESSFUL INTEROPERABILITY
                          WORKSHOP

SANTA CLARA, CA, May 4, 2005 The DAT Collaborative held its second successful
DAPL Plug Fest in March 2005. The DAT Collaborative is on course to enable
applications to take advantage of RDMA by delivering a universal set of APIs supporting
RDMA capable devices.

Substantial progress has been made since the first DAPL Plug Fest in October 2003. For
the first time there were participants from both the InfiniBand and iWARP over Ethernet
vendors. Two separate physical interconnect/interoperability islands were setup with
both islands executing the same binary interoperability tests. Both kernel-mode DAPL
(kDAPL) and user- mode DAPL (uDAPL) tests were conducted successfully. These
included DAT tests 1-6 (both kDAPL and uDAPL versions), as well as a suite of uDAPL
tests provided by Oracle.

The DAPL Plugfest took place in Santa Clara and was hosted by Mellanox Technologies.
The participants included Ammasso, Mellanox, NetEffect, Network Appliance, Oracle,
Siliquent, SUN Microsystems and Voltaire.

"Sun's recently released Solaris 10 Operating System includes a powerful and reliable
implementation of uDAPL." said Carl Hensler, Distinguished Engineer, Sun
Microsystems. "The DAPL Plugfest generated interoperability data that is of great value
to all providers and consumers of the DAPL API."

"The demonstration of DAPL interoperability on both InfiniBand and iWARP is a huge
step in the continuing advancement of RDMA and DAPL", says David Ford, Director of
Engineering at Network Appliance. "The results of the latest DAPL plugfest validate that
DAPL achieves transport independence without sacrificing the performance of
InfiniBand or iWARP".

"Standard RDMA-capable interconnects will enable improvements in the performance,
scalability and reliability of data centers. The standard APIs that are supported by all
RDMA transports on multiple platforms are required before these RDMA networks can
be effectively incorporated into our products," Juan Loaiza, Vice President, Systems
Technologies Group, Oracle.
About DAT Collaborative

The DAT Collaborative defines both kernel-level and user-level APIs to facilitate
development of applications and protocols that take advantage of the RDMA
technologies. The DAT Collaborative defines an OS independent and transport
independent user and kernel level APIs for RDMA (http://www.datcollaborative.org).

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