A method for use in a computing device, the method comprising: detecting a request to transmit data, the data including a plurality of data portions, each of the data portions being associated with a respective remote device that the data portion is destined for; identifying a list of addresses that is associated with the request, each of the addresses in the list corresponding to the respective remote device of a different one of the plurality of data portions; detecting whether the request is local; when the request is not local, transmitting the data over a communications network; when the request is local transmitting each of the data portions in the plurality over the respective DMA link that couples the computing device with the data portion's respective remote device.