<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Perhaps if you clearly describe what equipment
and connections you have in place and what you're trying to accomplish,
someone on this board can propose a solution.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In principle, it's always possible to
insert proxies/routers to "fake" any two endpoints into "believing"
they are communicating directly.<br></font><br><br><br><br><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Aaron Knister <aaron.s.knister@nasa.gov></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">09/11/2016 08:01 PM</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [gpfsug-discuss]
GPFS Routers</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Sent by:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>After some googling around, I wonder if perhaps what
I'm thinking of was <br>an I/O forwarding layer that I understood was being developed for x86_64
<br>type machines rather than some type of GPFS protocol router or proxy.<br><br>-Aaron<br><br>On 9/11/16 5:02 PM, Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE <br>CORP] wrote:<br>> Hi Everyone,<br>><br>> A while back I seem to recall hearing about a mechanism being developed<br>> that would function similarly to Lustre's LNET routers and effectively<br>> allow a single set of NSD servers to talk to multiple RDMA fabrics<br>> without requiring the NSD servers to have infiniband interfaces on
each<br>> RDMA fabric. Rather, one would have a set of GPFS gateway nodes on
each<br>> fabric that would in effect proxy the RDMA requests to the NSD server.<br>> Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Just curious if it's still
on<br>> the roadmap.<br>><br>> -Aaron<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>> gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br>> </font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss"><tt><font size=2>http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>><br><br>-- <br>Aaron Knister<br>NASA Center for Climate Simulation (Code 606.2)<br>Goddard Space Flight Center<br>(301) 286-2776<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss"><tt><font size=2>http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br><br></font></tt><br><BR>