The Fundamentals of RDMA Programming

The Fundamentals of RDMA Programming

Taught in English

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals

Instructor: NVIDIA Training

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Intermediate level

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5 hours to complete

3 weeks at 1 hour a week

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What you'll learn

RDMA Basics: Bypassing the OS, Memory zero copy and transport offload
Core RDMA: RDMA verbs and objects, data-path flow and memory management
RDMA Operations: Send and receive operations, RDMA write and RDMA read operations, atomic operations
Become familiar with InfiniBand architecture layer, RDMA basic flow, create a completion queue (CQ) and a queue pair (QP), and execute RDMA operation
Establish connection using RDMA_CM API

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There are 7 modules in this course

Welcome to the Fundamentals of RDMA Programming Course!

Remote Direct Memory Access, RDMA, enables server-to-server data movement directly between application memory without any CPU involvement. RDMA technology empowers advanced enterprise data centers and the world’s fastest supercomputers (HPC). RDMA allows real CPU offloads and kernel bypass, and, as such, RDMA-based applications provide better utilization of network HW resources while increasing speed and lowering link latencies. NVIDIA leads the interconnect industry with RDMA supported hardware and has paved the way for RDMA programming. It has gained unique and extensive experience by accompanying the world’s leading HPC, storage, finance, and cloud companies in RDMA application development projects. This online course offers an Innovative training experience, with short and focused videos, interactive quizzes and hands-on exercises needed to acquire the technical skills for programming RDMA-based applications. This course provides application developers with the required knowledge and skills to start programming RDMA applications that run seamlessly over Ethernet (RoCE) and InfiniBand networks. By the end of this course, you will be able to write and edit simple applications with RDMA. Upon successfully passing the exam at the end of this course, you will be provided with a digital completion certificate that validates your training experience needed to acquire the technical skills for programming RDMA-based applications.

In this module, you will learn what is RDMA and fundamental concepts such as memory zero copy and transport offloads.

What's included

4 videos4 quizzes

In this module you will be introduced to core RDMA components: RDMA verbs RDMA data-path RDMA memory management

What's included

5 videos1 quiz

In this module, you will learn how RDMA messages are sent and received. In addition, you will be introduced to RDMA atomic operations.

What's included

4 videos4 readings1 quiz

In this module, you will become familiar with essential code examples from the RDMA core GitHub repository.

What's included

4 videos5 readings

4 videosTotal 8 minutes

Lesson 14: Memory Registration1 minutePreview module
Lesson 15: RDMA Send Request2 minutes
Lesson 16: RDMA Receive Request1 minute
Lesson 17: Request Completions3 minutes

5 readingsTotal 50 minutes

Visual Studio10 minutes
A code file for this lesson 10 minutes
A code file for this lesson10 minutes
A code file for this lesson 10 minutes
A code file for this lesson10 minutes

In this module you will learn two methods to establish the initial RDMA connection between hosts - using TCP sockets or the RDMA connection manager.

What's included

2 videos2 readings

In this module, you will implement the knowledge acquired in this course, by using the RCpingpong program code.

What's included

6 videos6 readings

6 videosTotal 17 minutes

Lesson 20: Introduction to RCpingpong0 minutesPreview module
Lesson 21: RCpingpong Context 1 (INIT)4 minutes
Lesson 22: RCpingpong Context 2 (CLOSE)1 minute
Lesson 23: RCpingpong Data-Path5 minutes
Lesson 24: RC Connection1 minute
Solution (Adding a second QP)4 minutes

6 readingsTotal 70 minutes

A code file for this lesson 10 minutes
A code file for this lesson 10 minutes
A code file for this lesson10 minutes
A code file for this lesson10 minutes
A code file for this lesson 10 minutes
Excercise (Adding a second QP)20 minutes

It is highly recommended that you complete all the course activities before you begin the quiz. Good luck!

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1 quiz

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NVIDIA Training

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The Fundamentals of RDMA Programming

Course

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Details to know

See how employees at top companies are mastering in-demand skills

Earn a career certificate

There are 7 modules in this course

RDMA Basics

What's included

Core RDMA

What's included

RDMA Operations

What's included

RDMA Code Examples

What's included

RDMA Connection Management

What's included

RCpingpong

What's included

Course Completion Quiz - The Fundamentals of RDMA Programming

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