7. The computer system of claim 1 , further comprising an act of a software application establishing a link between the application and the local data store using the extended RDMA semantics, wherein the software application accesses at least a portion of application data stored in the local data store using the established link.
7. The computer system of claim 1 , further comprising an act of a software application establishing a link between the application and the local data store using the extended RDMA semantics, wherein the software application accesses at least a portion of application data stored in the local data store using the established link. 8. The computer system of claim 7 , wherein after the link is established, data is transferred between the software application and the local data store without any processor involvement.