[hpcdev-discuss] Project proposal: ISCSI Extensions for RDMA

[Peter Dunlap]

I'd like to propose a new Opensolaris project to implement iSCSI 
Extensions for RDMA (iSER).

Project Synopsis:
        iSCSI Extensions for Remote DMA (iSER)

Project Description:

The project would deliver an initiator and target implementation of iSER 
and would use Infiniband as the underlying transport.  iSER accelerates 
the iSCSI protocol by mapping the data transfer phases to RDMA 
operations.  As a result an iSER initiator should be able to read and 
write data from an iSER target at high data rates with relatively low 
CPU utilization compared to iSCSI using TCP/IP.  As a sub-task of the 
iSER target implementation this project will develop and contribute an 
Comstar iSCSI port provider implementation for the Comstar project.

I'd like to request endorsement by the Storage and HPC Developer 
communities.

Project leaders:

Peter Dunlap
Dan Maslowski
Carla Mowers
Jesse Butler
Priya Krishnan