[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS Routers

[Aaron Knister]

After some googling around, I wonder if perhaps what I'm thinking of was 
an I/O forwarding layer that I understood was being developed for x86_64 
type machines rather than some type of GPFS protocol router or proxy.

-Aaron

On 9/11/16 5:02 PM, Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE 
CORP] wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> A while back I seem to recall hearing about a mechanism being developed
> that would function similarly to Lustre's LNET routers and effectively
> allow a single set of NSD servers to talk to multiple RDMA fabrics
> without requiring the NSD servers to have infiniband interfaces on each
> RDMA fabric. Rather, one would have a set of GPFS gateway nodes on each
> fabric that would in effect proxy the RDMA requests to the NSD server.
> Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Just curious if it's still on
> the roadmap.
>
> -Aaron
>
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