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fi_guide - libfabric programmer’s guide
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fi_guide - libfabric programmer’s guide
Overview
libfabric is a communication library framework designed to meet the performance and scalability require‐
ments of high-performance computing (HPC) applications. libfabric defines communication interfaces that
enable a tight semantic map between applications and underlying network services. Specifically, libfab‐
ric software interfaces have been co-designed with network hardware providers and application developers,
with a focus on the needs of HPC users.
This guide describes the libfabric architecture and interfaces. Due to the length of the guide, it has
been broken into multiple pages. These sections are:
Introductionfi_intro(7)
This section provides insight into the motivation for the libfabric design and underlying network‐
ing features that are being exposed through the API.
Architecturefi_arch(7)
This describes the exposed architecture of libfabric, including the object-model and their related
operations
Setupfi_setup(7)
This provides basic bootstrapping and setup for using the libfabric API.