Summary: A Study of Hardware Assisted IP over InfiniBand and
its Impact on Enterprise Data Center Performance
Ryan E. Grant1
, Pavan Balaji2
, Ahmad Afsahi1
1
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Queen's University
Kingston ON, Canada
ryan.grant@queensu.ca, ahmad.afsahi@queensu.ca
2
Mathematics and Computer Science
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL, USA
balaji@mcs.anl.gov
Abstract-- High-performance sockets implementations such as
the Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP) have traditionally showed
major performance advantages compared to the TCP/IP stack
over InfiniBand (IPoIB). These stacks bypass the kernel-based
TCP/IP and take advantage of network hardware features,

Source: Afsahi, Ahmad - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University (Kingston)
Balaji, Pavan - Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences; Mathematics