Paper Info
Title
LW-RDMA: design and implementation of a lightweight RDMA API for InfiniBand-based clusters
Abstract
Due to the development of low-latency networks such as InfiniBand and Myrinet, cluster-based computing systems are now commonly used when implementing computing-intensive applications. InfiniBand is the de-facto standard for high-performance cluster-based computing systems. InfiniBand supports RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) features and provides a native API for these features. The use of the native-API-like VPI Verbs API is not easy owing to its complexity. However, customizing and optimizing can be done to improve the development efficiency. In this paper, we design and implement a lightweight RDMA API to improve the usability and applicability of InfiniBand-based clusters. The proposed method is termed LW-RDMA. The LW-RDMA API is lightweight and simple to use by those without expertise in the area of InfiniBand architecture and/or related details. In the experimental results, the implemented LW-RDMA showed better data transfer efficiency performance in some cases when compared to other RDMA techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2811411.2811471
RACS
Field
DocType
Citations 
Cluster (physics),Sockets Direct Protocol,InfiniBand,Data transmission,Computer science,Usability,Remote direct memory access,Native API,Myrinet,Operating system,Embedded system
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bongjae Kim142.25
Hyedong Jung262.00