Remote direct memory access over the converged enhanced ethernet fabric: Evaluating the options

Proceedings - Symposium on the High Performance Interconnects, Hot Interconnects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-130

  Cohen, David ^a   Sachs, Goldman ^a   Talpey, Thomas ^a   Kanevsky, Arkady ^a   Cummings, Uri ^a   Krause, Michael ^a   Recio, Renato ^a   Crupnicoff, Diego ^b   Dickman, Lloyd ^a   Grun, Paul ^c  

^a Fulcrum Microsystems ^*

^b NVIDIA   (United States)

^c System Fabric Works   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CEE; Ethernet; InfiniBand; RDMA

Indexed keywords

ETHERNET LINK; EXISTING METHOD; INFINIBAND; INFINIBAND ARCHITECTURE; IP NETWORKS; PHYSICAL LAYERS; REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; UNDERLYING PHYSICAL NETWORKS; VIRTUAL INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE;

ETHERNET; FABRICS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77950926189     PISSN: 15504794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HOTI.2009.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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