fi_guide(7)

🎀 NAME 🎀

fi_guide — the libfabric programmer’s guide. This is the Libfabric v2.5.1 manual page, bestie, and it’s giving “map of the whole guide” energy. 💅

🌈 OVERVIEW 🌈

Okay so libfabric is a communication library framework designed to meet the performance and scalability requirements of high-performance computing (HPC) applications. No cap. It defines communication interfaces that enable a tight semantic map between applications and underlying network services. The way that libfabric software interfaces have been co-designed with network hardware providers and application developers, with a focus on the needs of HPC users? Obsessed. ✨

This guide describes the libfabric architecture and interfaces. Because the guide is long, it has been broken into multiple pages. These sections are:

• Introduction fi_intro(7) — this section provides insight into the motivation for the libfabric design and the underlying networking features that are being exposed through the API. 🦋
• Architecture fi_arch(7) — this describes the exposed architecture of libfabric, including the object-model and their related operations. 🎀
• Setup fi_setup(7) — this provides basic bootstrapping and setup for using the libfabric API. 🌸

👑 AUTHORS 👑

OpenFabrics. 💖

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made with 💖 by OpenFabrics, from the Libfabric Programmer’s Manual, version Libfabric v2.5.1, dated 2024-12-10 — fi_guide(7) out. 💅✨