Show HN: OpenRDMA-An Open Source FPGA-Based 400G RDMA-Like SmartNIC

Category: infrastructure

Tags: rdma, smartnic, fpga, ai-infrastructure, open-source-hardware

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 7)

Open-RDMA is an open-source FPGA-based RDMA-like SmartNIC implementation targeting AI workloads, providing full-stack hardware (RTL) and software (drivers) code. It is interesting because it aims to break the black-box nature of commercial RDMA cards, enabling customization and research in high-performance networking for AI infrastructure.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, ai researchers

Repository: https://github.com/open-rdma/open-rdma · GPL-2.0 · 259 stars

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