Re: BEEP over Infiniband

Marshall Rose wrote:

>> Has anybody implemented/heard about BEEP over Infiniband? Given  that 
>> IB gives a full L2/L3 fabric and BEEP everything else, we  could use 
>> this combination to speed up various applications in SOA/ Web2.0 space.
>>
>> Love to hear the group's thoughts on this.
>
>
> is there a transport layer between beep and infiniband that provides  
> the things that tcp provides? am i missing something?
>
> /mtr

(I had sent this pointer to the list earlier...)

http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/parsoft/armci/

(There is also GASNet from Berkeley.)

Its not TCP, but its worth looking at whether a BEEP-like protocol might 
be layered on top.

IBM also has a LAPI product (low-level API) which should be available on 
Linux as well soon.