Re: BEEP over Infiniband

Marshall Rose <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:13:17 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.beep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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.

interesting. you can certainly layer beep on top of a messaging  
passing api, providing it gives you ordered, reliable delivery.  
presumably, you wouldn't need any flow management for the channels.  
so, this leaves the performance issue down to using the default  
content-transfer-encoding when moving data.

/mtr