In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> We seem to have come full circle. My original question was about
> providing a better way for sockets applications to take advantage of
> SAN hardware. W2K Datacenter introduces "Winsock Direct," which will
> bypass the protocol stack when appropriate.
Pekka> If you used sockets, I believe the normal way to use SAN
Pekka> boards is to just make them look like network cards with a
Pekka> large MTU Sure it works, but it's not very efficient :) (I
Pekka> have to admit I've not played with that kind of toys at
Pekka> all, though)
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:28:20PM +0200, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand your reference to MPI here. MPI is a
> high-level API; MPI can run on top of whatever communication features
> exists: TCP/IP, shared memory, VI,
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> Providing a wrapper library for use with Infiniband and the current
> SAN boards like WSD would probably be a useful exercise, but to really get
> good performance (especially latency-wise) you probably want to use
> something like MPI. For many app
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:36:30AM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> > I think you misunderstood the point. Microsoft is providing this WSD
> > DLL as a standard part of W2K now. This means that hardware vendors
> > just have to write a SAN service provider, and all Winsock-using
> > applications be
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> > "Pete" == Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Roland> The rough idea is that WSD is a new user space library
> Roland> that looks at sockets calls and decides if they have to go
> Roland> through the usual kernel
> OK, how about an Infiniband network with a TCP/IP gateway at the edge?
> Have we thought about how Linux servers should use the gateway to talk
> to internet hosts? Surely there's no point in running TCP/IP inside
> the Infiniband network, so there needs to be some concept of "socket
> over Inf
> a properly written host based stack works much better in
> the face of a changing environment: Faster CPUs, new CPUs
> (IA-64), new network protocols (ECN). Besides, it is easy
> to "accelerate" a bad network stack, but try to outdo a
> well done stack.
Putting the stack partly in user spacd ca
> "Pete" == Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Roland> The rough idea is that WSD is a new user space library
Roland> that looks at sockets calls and decides if they have to go
Roland> through the usual kernel network stack, or if they can be
Roland> handed off to a "SAN
> I'd like to find out if anyone has thought about how Linux will handle
> some of the new network technologies people are starting to push.
> Specifically I'm talking about "System Area Networks," that is, things
> like Infiniband, as well as TCP/IP offload.
Infiniband is doing relatively well,
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