Zero copy sockets direct protocol over InfiniBand - Preliminary implementation and performance analysis

Proceedings - Symposium on the High Performance Interconnects, Hot Interconnects

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 128-137

  Goldenberg, Dror ^a   Kagan, Michael ^a   Ravid, Ran ^a   Tsirkin, Michael S ^a  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CPU UTILIZATION; INFINIBAND RDMA; SOCKETS DIRECT PROTOCOL (SDP); ZERO-COPY (ZCOPY);

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; DATA TRANSFER; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 33746868973     PISSN: 15504794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CONECT.2005.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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