> > > I also don't know why you picked the name rv, this looks like it has little to do > > > with the usual MPI rendezvous protocol. This is all about bulk transfers. It is > > > actually a lot like RDS. Maybe you should be using RDS? > > > [Wan, Kaike] While there are similarities in concepts, details are > > different. > > You should list these differences. > > > Quite frankly this could be viewed as an application accelerator > > much like RDS served that purpose for Oracle, which continues to be > > its main use case. > > Obviously, except it seems to be doing the same basic acceleration > technique as RDS. A better name for this might be "scalable RDMA service", with RDMA meaning the transport operation. My understanding is this is intended to be usable over any IB/RoCE device. I'm not familiar enough with the details of RDS or this service to know the differences. - Sean
