Announcing the release of RDMA for Apache Hadoop-2.x 0.9.1

["Xiaoyi Lu@cse.osu" <lu...@cse.ohio-state.edu>]

The RDMA for Apache Hadoop team is pleased to announce the release of
Hadoop-2.x 0.9.1 package (for Hadoop 2.x series) with the following
features.

* RDMA for Apache Hadoop-2.x 0.9.1 Features

    - Based on Apache Hadoop 2.4.1

    - High performance design with native InfiniBand and RoCE
      support at the verbs level for the HDFS component

    - Compliant with Apache Hadoop 2.4.1 APIs and applications

    - Easily configurable for native InfiniBand, RoCE, and the
      traditional sockets based support (Ethernet and InfiniBand
      with IPoIB)

    - On-demand connection setup

    - HDFS over native InfiniBand and RoCE
      - RDMA-based write
      - RDMA-based replication
      - Parallel replication support
      - Optimizations for SSD

    - Tested with
      - Mellanox InfiniBand adapters (DDR, QDR and FDR)
      - RoCE support with Mellanox adapters
      - Various multi-core platforms
      - Different file systems with disks and SSDs


For downloading RDMA for Apache Hadoop-2.x 0.9.1 package and the
associated user guide, please visit the following URL:

http://hibd.cse.ohio-state.edu

Sample performance numbers for benchmarks using RDMA for Apache
Hadoop-2.x 0.9.1 version can be viewed by visiting the `Performance'
tab of the above website.

All questions, feedbacks and bug reports are welcome. Please post it
to the rdma-hadoop-discuss mailing list (rdma-hadoop-discuss at
cse.ohio-state.edu).

Thanks,

The High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) Team