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AMQP is a wire-level protocol and model for high performance enterprise messaging.

From the AMQP website:

AMQP is an Open Standard for Messaging Middleware.

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Yes, The Qpid C++ broker has been achieved great benchmark results in published papers by those that redistribute it. Red Hat MRG product build on Qpid has show ove shown 760,000msg/sec ingress on an 8 way box or 6,000,000 OPRA16 000msg/sec OPRA messages.

Latencies have been recored at as low as 180-250us (.18ms-.3ms) for TCP round trip and 60-80us for RDMA round trip using the C++ broker.

How To

How to use RDMA with Qpid

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