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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael E. Aho, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas M. Gooding, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael B. Mundy, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrew T. Tauferner, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Remote direct memory access ('RDMA') in a parallel computer, the parallel computer including a plurality of nodes, each node including a messaging unit, including: receiving an RDMA read operation request that includes a virtual address representing a memory region at which to receive data to be transferred from a second node to the first node; responsive to the RDMA read operation request: translating the virtual address to a physical address; creating a local RDMA object that includes a counter set to the size of the memory region; sending a message that includes an DMA write operation request, the physical address of the memory region on the first node, the physical address of the local RDMA object on the first node, and a remote virtual address on the second node; and receiving the data to be transferred from the second node.