[HiBD] Announcing the release of RDMA for Apache HBase 0.9.1

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

The High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) team is pleased to announce the
release of RDMA for Apache HBase 0.9.1 package with the following
features.

  - Based on Apache HBase 1.1.2
  - High performance design with native InfiniBand and RoCE support at 
    the verbs-level for Apache HBase
  - Compliant with Apache HBase 1.1.2 APIs and applications
  - Easily configurable for native InfiniBand, RoCE, and the
    traditional sockets based support (Ethernet and InfiniBand 
    with IPoIB)
  - On-demand connection setup
  - Tested with
    - Mellanox InfiniBand adapters (DDR, QDR, FDR, and EDR)
    - RoCE support with Mellanox adapters
    - Various multi-core platforms

For downloading RDMA for Apache HBase 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 HBase
0.9.1 version can be viewed by visiting the `Performance' tab of the
above website.

All questions, feedback 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 

PS: The number of organizations using the HiBD stacks has crossed 185
(from 26 countries). Similarly, the number of downloads from the HiBD
site has crossed 17,300.  The HiBD team would like to thank all its
users and organizations!!!