Solarflare's OpenOnload is a Linux-based, Open Source, high-performance application accelerator that delivers lower and more predictable latency and higher message rates for TCP and UDP-based applications. OpenOnload is ideal for applications that benefit from lower latency (with decreasing jitter) and higher throughput, including financial services, geosciences, biosciences, weather and other HPC applications.
OpenOnload is binary compatible with the industry standard BSD Sockets API, thereby providing acceleration of TCP/UDP applications with no need to run a new protocol on the wire. In contrast, RDMA, iWARP and other Infiniband protocols require modificatoins to user applications and support for new protocols on the wire. Both the LInux kernel stack and OpenOnload can co-exist on a server, allowing different applications to be optimized for bandwidth or low-latency simultaneously. Appplications can choose at run-time to run either OpenOnload or the standard Linux kernel stack.
Applications using OpenOnload typically see latency reduced to sub-3 microseconds and a 3x improvement in message rates. Equally important, OpenOnload reduces latency jitter, bringing a greater level of predictability to message processing latency. Many applications will see performance benefits from OpenOnload, in particular applications that demand low-latency or high message rate processing, including financial services, biosciences and geosciences.
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Red Hat Certifications
This product has been certified to run on the following Red Hat products and technologies:
| Target Product | Level |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x | Self-Certified |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x | Self-Certified |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x | Self-Certified |
