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

[Panda, Dhabaleswar]

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

NEW FEATURES

  - Based on Apache Kafka 1.0.0

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

  - Compliant with Apache Kafka 1.0.0 APIs and applications

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

  - On-demand connection setup

  - Support for RDMA Device Selection

  - Tested with
    - Mellanox InfiniBand adapters (DDR, QDR, FDR, and EDR)
    - RoCE support with Mellanox adapters
    - Various multi-core platforms

For downloading RDMA for Apache Kafka 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
Kafka 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 290
(from 34 countries). Similarly, the number of downloads from the HiBD
site has crossed 28,100.  The HiBD team would like to thank all its
users and organizations!!