Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium

“The organization delegates the majority of operations secretariat duties to the management company, vital technical marketing, inc. Including but not limited to administration of the majority of meetings, assistance with membership duties and all financial duties.”

“The corporation has three (3) membership classes: (1) promoters, (2) contributors, and (3) adopters. All promoter members are entitled to all benefits generally afforded to all contributors (as noted below) as well as the following additional rights (but subject to any of the following conditions): the right to appoint one representative to serve as a promoter director on the board of directors pursuant to section 5.3.1 of the bylaws the right to vote to fill a promoter membership position vacated by a withdrawing promoter member pursuant to section 4.1 (iv) of the bylaws the right to vote on all matters presented to the corporation's "members" for a vote the right to participate, along with the directors, in the corporation's promoter task force to be listed as a "promoter" of the corporation on the corporation's website, in its marketing material, in its press releases and at other events; in addition to the foregoing, the board of directors may from time to time approve other rights to which all promoters may be entitled. All contributors are entitled to all benefits generally afforded to all adopters (as noted below) as well as the following additional rights (but subject to the following conditions): the right to participate in the corporation's work groups (described above under line 1 of part ii) to define and develop the corporation's ualink specifications and to engage in marketing activities and to vote as a participant of that work group on matters presented to work group participants for such vote; and the right to vote as a participant of a work group on matters presented to work group participants for such vote, review draft specifications, and have access to any approved technical proposals in addition to the foregoing, the board of directors may from time to time approve other rights to which all contributors may be entitled. Adopters are entitled to the following rights: the right to attend those corporation trade shows, or other industry events (in the status of a member of the corporation) as may be determined by the board of directors or its designee; reasonable early access to a final specification (as defined in the bylaws) before it is released to the general public (subject to certain conditions of the board of directors); in addition to the foregoing, the board of directors may from time to time approve other rights to which all adopters may be entitled. Any company, organization, and other person may join as an adopter by signing the participation agreement and paying the membership dues.”

“Promoter members hold voting rights.”

“Not yet established as this is ualink's first tax filing year. Form 990 will likely be reviewed by the consortium's treasurer and board chair.”

“The organization makes its governing documents and financial statements available to the public upon written request.”

“The corporation is a non-profit corporation formed for purposes that include, but are not limited to, creating, using, distributing, and/or publishing information, documentation, and/or other work products to develop and promote the adoption of openly accessible standard specifications related to scalable high-performance interconnects that enable communication among accelerators and related devices.”

“Officers and board of directors.”

“Specification development activities (75%) the corporation's ualink specifications are created through a process where members can openly and publicly participate in a work group. These members can openly submit new features or functionalities to the corporation's "draft specifications" through their technical proposals which are submitted and discussed during the work groups. Once the work group has completed a "draft specification", the work group's chairman sends that "draft specification" to the corporation's board of directors for their review and vote of approval. The board of directors reviews all "draft specifications- and determines what action to take regarding the draft specifications, including returning the draft specification to the work group for further development, or submitting the draft specification to the corporation's members for their review during a "review period," which shall be a period of 45 days. At the completion of a review period for a particular "draft specification", the board of directors then determines what action to take regarding the "draft specifications", including voting to approve it as a "final specification" of the corporation. Upon any such board approval, the "final specification" is made available to all ualink members and is considered part of the ualink specifications. The above ualink specifications are developed collaboratively by the ualink members. Once these ualink specifications are ready they are available to all ualink members for use and adoption. The corporation does not directly offer any services to its members or the general public and does not develop specific software or hardware for sale to its members or to the general public.”

“Promotion and marketing of ualink specifications (5%) the following are examples of the activities of the corporation with respect to the promotion and marketing of its ualink specifications. The corporation has participated in various industry events to promote and market its ualink specifications to the larger technology community, including the following industry conferences and/or trade shows: "the flash memory summit conference & exhibition in santa clara, california in august 2024. At this conference, ualink representatives gave several presentations which explained the ualink technology using publicly available information and highlighting the advantages available to the performance computing industry with broad adoption. "the super computing 2024 conference in atlanta, georgia in november 2024. At this conference, ualink representatives gave several presentations which explained the ualink technology using publicly available information and highlighting the advantages available to the performance computing industry with broad adoption. The corporation plans to participate in additional upcoming industry conferences and/or trade shows in 2025 to promote and market the ualink specification and the industry-wide advantages from implementing the ualink specifications. The corporation has plans to create a technical white paper about ualink technology in 2025.”