Since this project uses new advanced hardware features like RDMA, we briefly describe the hardware setting which is suitable here.
ROCC can run most Mellanox RNICs (We say most because we have not tested on all of them yet :) ). It has been tested on ConnctX-3, ConnectX-4,ConnectX-5,
both VPI and ROCE.
Yet, we strongly suggest not to use ConnectX-3 RNIC, because its one-sided primitive requires
very very careful setting and tuning to achieve a reasonable performance on ROCC.
Later generations of RNICs (Like ConnectX-4) works well on ROCC.
This is because ConnectX-3 RNIC has limited hardware resources such as the cache on the NIC.
DrTM+H requires Intel's restricted transactional memory~(RTM) for its concurrently data stores. It can call illegal instructions fault on CPU without this support on some workloads. Yet, ROCC does not depends on RTM.