[ofiwg] descriptive terminology for libfabric

[Oucharek, Doug S]

I admit I have not spent much time looking at libfabric.  To me, for it to be IPC-focused, it needs to focus on message passing and hide all the details of transport such as RDMA mechanics.  Examples are MPI or ZeroMQ.   Is libfabrics like this or is it more like IB verbs where the programmer is subjected to the ugly details of RDMA?

Doug

On Aug 6, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Paul Grun <grun at cray.com<mailto:grun at cray.com>> wrote:

Does anybody object to the shorthand description of libfabric as “an API designed to support user mode IPC operations”?   I am particularly interested if I am misusing the expression “IPC” here, which it seems to me describes perfectly what is happened in e.g. MPI (but then again, I’m not a computer scientist, so I may be misusing it).

No need to be overly pedantic, but there is a need for accuracy in language.

Thanks,
-Paul

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