
• Another proprietary communication layer developed by
Myricom
– Compatible with regular UDP sockets (embraces and extends)
– Idea is to bypass the kernel stack and give UDP applications direct
access to the network adapter
• High performance and low-jitter
• Primary motivation: Financial market applications (e.g.,
stock market)
– Applications prefer unreliable communication
– Timeliness is more important than reliability
• This stack is covered by NDA; more details can be
requested from Myricom
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Datagram Bypass Layer (DBL)
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