[HiBD] Announcing the release of RDMA-Memcached 0.9.5 and OSU HiBD Benchmarks (OHB) 0.9.1

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) team is pleased to announce the
release of RDMA-Memcached 0.9.5 and OSU HiBD-Benchmarks (OHB) 0.9.1
with the following features.

* RDMA-Memcached 0.9.5 Features

   - Memcached server designs based on Memcached 1.4.24
     - Compliant with the new Memcached's core LRU algorithm
   - Memcached client designs based on libMemcached 1.0.18
   - High performance design with native InfiniBand and RoCE support at
     the verbs-level for Memcached Server and Client
   - High performance design of SSD-assisted hybrid memory
     - Support for enabling and disabling direct I/O for SSD read/write
   - Compliant with libMemcached APIs and applications
   - Non-Blocking Libmemcached Set/Get API extensions
     - APIs to issue non-blocking set/get requests to the RDMA-based Memcached
       servers
     - APIs to support monitoring the progress of non-blocking requests issued
       in an asynchronous fashion
     - Facilitating overlap of concurrent set/get requests
   - Support for burst-buffer mode in Lustre-integrated design of HDFS in RDMA
     for Apache Hadoop-2.x
   - Support for both RDMA-enhanced and socket-based Memcached clients
   - Easily configurable for native InfiniBand, RoCE, and the traditional
     sockets-based support (Ethernet and InfiniBand with IPoIB)
   - On-demand connection setup
   - Tested with
     - Native Verbs-level support with Mellanox InfiniBand adapters (DDR, QDR,
       FDR, and EDR)
     - RoCE support with Mellanox adapters
     - Various multi-core platforms
     - SATA-SSD, PCIe-SSD, and NVMe-SSD

* OSU HiBD-Benchmarks 0.9.1 Feature

   - Micro-benchmarks for Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
     - Sequential Write Latency (SWL) Benchmark
     - Sequential Read Latency (SRL) Benchmark
     - Random Read Latency (RRL) Benchmark
     - Sequential Write Throughput (SWT) Benchmark
     - Sequential Read Throughput (SRT) Benchmark
     - Support benchmarking
       - Apache Hadoop 1.x and 2.x HDFS
       - Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) HDFS
       - Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop (CDH) HDFS
   - Micro-benchmarks for Memcached
     - Get Latency Benchmark
     - Set Latency Benchmark
     - Mixed Get/Set Latency Benchmark
     - Non-Blocking API Latency Benchmark
     - Hybrid Memory Latency Benchmark
   - Micro-benchmarks for HBase
     - Get Latency Benchmark
     - Put Latency Benchmark

For downloading RDMA-Memcached 0.9.5 and OSU HiBD-Benchmarks 0.9.1
packages, the associated user guides, please visit the following URL:

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

Sample performance numbers for RDMA-Memcached using OHB benchmarks can
be viewed by visiting the `Performance' tab of the above website.

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

Thanks,

The High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) Team
http://hibd.cse.ohio-state.edu