Recent Developments

published paper

A General-Purpose API for iWARP and InfiniBand (PDF)
by Robert Russell, in DC CAVES workshop, September 2009

published paper

The Extended Sockets Interface for Accessing RDMA Hardware (PDF)
by Robert Russell, in PDCS'08, November 2008

new documentation

Overview of UNH EXS for Programmers (PDF)
by Robert Russell, October 2009

published paper

Implementation and Evaluation of iSCSI over RDMA (PDF)
by Ethan Burns and Robert Russell, in IEEE SNAPI'08, September 2008

About the Consortium

The UNH-IOL iWARP Testing Consortium, formed in August 2004, is an industry-supported organization that works with member companies to provide a neutral test environment and industry-accepted test methodologies to advance the interoperability of devices that implement the iWARP protocol family.

About iWARP

iWARP (for “internet Wide-Area RDMA Protocol”) allows computers anywhere in the world to communicate with each other using RDMA (remote direct memory access). RDMA, which has a longer history of use in local networks for such demanding applications as enterprise storage and clustered supercomputing, has recently become valuable for Internet applications as well. As network links increase in capacity to ten gigabits per second and higher, RDMA becomes attractive because it removes what would otherwise be overwhelming network load from a computer's central processor.

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