RDMA Over TCP/IP Spec Done

CHICAGO -- The RDMA Consortium today announced completion of version 1.0 of the RDMA over TCP wire protocol specifications. The completed wire protocol specifications are suitable for first generation industry implementations of the RDMA over TCP protocol and have been forwarded to Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups as Internet Drafts for their consideration. The consortium continues to work on companion specifications and solicits industry participation and review. Completion of 1.0 versions of the companion specifications is expected in 1Q03.

Founded by Adaptec (Nasdaq: ADPT), Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), EMC (NYSE: EMC), HP (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Network Appliance (Nasdaq: NTAP), the Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Consortium is an independent consortium formed to develop the architectural specifications necessary to implement products that provide RDMA over TCP/IP networks, including Ethernet-based networks. These specifications will help organizations meet increasing demands for networking bandwidth and speed that are currently growing faster than the processing power and memory bandwidth of the compute nodes that process networking traffic.RDMA technology enables removal of data copy operations and reduction in latencies by allowing one computer to directly place information in another computer’s memory with minimal demands on memory bus bandwidth and CPU processing overhead, while preserving memory protection semantics. Today, communications over TCP/IP typically require copy operations, which add latency and consume significant CPU and memory resources.RDMA ConsortiumInternet Engineering Task Force (IETF)