Architectural Directions for Server I/O Subsystems
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From the perspective of an experienced performance analyst, perhaps the most frustrating aspects of server I/O are the lack of hardware measurement data and the architectural limitations imposed by the traditional bus structures. This paper is intended to provide a tutorial on IBA, the InfiniBand Architecture. It will discuss what the IBA will mean for the design of enterprise class servers, the generic layered driver model, as well as storage area networks in the future. Specific emphasis is placed on the primitives for I/O measurement that are incorporated in the architecture.
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