Remote DMA (Score 1)

TCP offload engines, zero copy I/O etc are not exactly a new concept. However, what could be significant is in the realization of applications based on these concepts. i am trying to bring in a point about RDMA (Remote Direct Memory access) which relies upon a hardware based RDMA engine residing in the peer. RDMA suits bulky data transfer like the one seen in SAN (Storage area networks).
more info on RDMA is available at http://rdmaconsortium.org/.