This sounds like a modern follow on in the spirit of work done at UW, Duke and UBC in the 90s called "GMS". The interconnect was ATM at first, and then Myrinet

This sounds like a modern follow on in the spirit of work done at UW, Duke and UBC in the 90s called "GMS". The interconnect was ATM at first, and then Myrinet (which is a sort of predecessor to Infiniband). The GMS research was done on DEC Alphas running DEC UNIX (and later FreeBSD) and involved allowing applications transparent access to huge amounts of RAM over the network. And in fact, it looks like they cite some of the GMS papers..