are other apps that use RDMA to better manage remote data base, one
example is creating shared cache.
is this a theoretical feature, or something that people really do?
I think the term RDMA leads some people astray because it
sounds as if you get something like a sysv shared-memory
segment across machines.
it's easy to imagine that something like that would be very
convenient for the kind of shared data you're talking about.
It is a real product. I can connect you to the vendor if you would like
to.
sorry, I specifically was wondering about real applications, not vendors.
but do you imply that IB RDMA is being used to provide the kind of network
shared-memory I described? that is, not put/get, but an area which is
accessed directly as if it's local memory, but for which machine-level
loads and stores are translated to RDMA transactions? traditionally,
this kind of thing depends on the host's MMU, which means that certain
important cases (many-writer pages) are pathologically slow. does IB
provide some hardware support that ameliorates this problem?
is the vendor you're talking about ScaleMP?
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