The race toward converged networks took a step forward Monday as a trade group announced a capability for layering Infiniband’s low latency features on top of Ethernet. The so-called Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE, pronounced Rocky) is geared for high performance computing applications, typically running on large clusters.
New Converged Network Blends Ethernet, Infiniband
April 19, 2010