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| Data centers share information dictated by network protocols, and in order to operate efficiently, these protocols must access information quickly on a large scale. However, the two leading protocols, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) both fail in one of those categories: TCP has a high latency and RDMA is not plausible on a large scale. Researchers at Purdue University have developed a protocol, Remote Indirect Memory Access (RIMA), which manages to have both low latency and works over a large scale. The basic operation for RIMA allows for messages to be appended to the tail of a memory region that both the sender and the receiver can access. Information under RIMA's protocol would only be shared with the two nodes involved in the transfer, not with every single node in the system, which causes RDMA to be difficult to scale. Having the information appended onto the memory regions allows it to still bypass the kernel and maintain a low latency. This eliminates both of the problems that RDMA and TCP experience. RIMA can easily be implemented into existing data centers through a network interface card (NIC) and a software update, revolutionizing large data transfers in data centers. Advantages: -Low latency -Scalability -Can be installed into existing data centers Potential Applications: -Large data centers -New network protocols |
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NATL-Patent
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United States
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