Re: Infiniband

2006-01-15 Thread lichtner
I think I have found some information which if I had hardware available would lead me to skip the prototyping stage entirely: This paper benchmarks the performance of infiniband through 1) UDAPL and 2) Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) - also available from openib.org: "Sockets Direct Protocol

Re: Infiniband

2006-01-15 Thread James Strachan
On 14 Jan 2006, at 22:27, lichtner wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, James Strachan wrote: The infiniband transport would be native code, so you could use JNI. However, it would definitely be worth it. Agreed! I'd *love* a Java API to Infiniband! Have wanted one for ages & google every

Re: Infiniband

2006-01-14 Thread lichtner
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, James Strachan wrote: > > The infiniband transport would be native code, so you could use JNI. > > However, it would definitely be worth it. > > Agreed! I'd *love* a Java API to Infiniband! Have wanted one for ages > & google every once in

Re: Infiniband

2006-01-14 Thread lichtner
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, James Strachan wrote: > > The infiniband transport would be native code, so you could use JNI. > > However, it would definitely be worth it. > > Agreed! I'd *love* a Java API to Infiniband! Have wanted one for ages > & google every once in

Re: Infiniband

2006-01-13 Thread James Strachan
On 13 Jan 2006, at 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With regard to clustering, I also want to mention a remote option, which is to use infiniband RDMA for inter-node communication. With an infiniband link between two machines you can copy a buffer directly from the memory of one to the memory

Re: Infiniband

2006-01-13 Thread lichtner
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Alan D. Cabrera wrote: > > The infiniband transport would be native code, so you could use JNI. > > However, it would definitely be worth it. > > Do you have any references to the where one could get a peek at the > transport API? http://infiniband.sourceforge.net/

Re: Infiniband

2006-01-13 Thread Alan D. Cabrera
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On 1/13/2006 11:51 AM: With regard to clustering, I also want to mention a remote option, which is to use infiniband RDMA for inter-node communication. With an infiniband link between two machines you can copy a buffer directly from the memory of one to the memory of

Infiniband

2006-01-13 Thread lichtner
With regard to clustering, I also want to mention a remote option, which is to use infiniband RDMA for inter-node communication. With an infiniband link between two machines you can copy a buffer directly from the memory of one to the memory of the other, without switching context. This means