Local RDMA for development

Question

I am trying to create and run RDMA examples here . But since I'm just learning, I don’t have the equipment that can control RDMA. I get such errors when I try to run sample code.

librdmacm: couldn't read ABI version. librdmacm: assuming: 4 CMA: unable to get RDMA device list error: ec = rdma_create_event_channel() failed (returned zero/null). 

Is there any “local” implementation of RDMA functionality that I can use for development? I understand that “R” in RDMA means “remote”, but I thought it might exist for testing / development purposes.

For reference, I'm trying to do this in an Ubuntu 14.04 box by installing the libibverbs-dev and librdmacm-dev packages to get the code to compile.

Answer 1

Have you tried using soft-iwarp?

http://voidreflections.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-install-soft-iwarp-on-ubuntu.html

https://gitorious.org/softiwarp