Concepts for OFED
The verb layer for Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) verbs are common for InfiniBand, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol (iWARP), and the verbs that are derived from the InfiniBand architecture.
Hardware requirements
The AIX® operating system supports RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) adapters. The hardware that supports RoCE RDMA in AIX is called the PCIe2 10 GbE RoCE Adapter support adapter.
Software requirements
The AIX OFED Verbs is based on the OFED 1.5 code
of OpenFabrics Alliance. The 32-bit, and 64-bit user applications
of the OFED code are supported on AIX operating system. The following
libraries are delivered with the installation of RDMA: