
• Some IB models have multiple hardware accelerators
– E.g., Mellanox IB adapters
• Protocol Offload Engines
– Completely implement ISO/OSI layers 2-4 (link layer, network layer
and transport layer) in hardware
• Additional hardware supported features also present
– RDMA, Multicast, QoS, Fault Tolerance, and many more
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