[ofiwg] [ANNOUNCE] libfabric release 1.0

[Hefty, Sean]

The Open Fabrics Interfaces Working Group (OFIWG) announces the release of libfabric (aka OFI) 1.0.  The OFIWG is an open coalition of industry, academic, and national labs partners, that have been working over the past two years to design and develop interfaces that enable a tight semantic map between applications and underlying fabric services.  Specifically, libfabric software interfaces have been co-designed with fabric hardware providers and application developers, with a focus on the needs of high-performance applications, such as MPI, SHMEM, PGAS, DBMS, and enterprise applications.  OFI is agnostic to the underlying networking protocols, as well as the implementation of the networking devices.

More information regarding OFI and the OFIWG can be found on the ofiwg github site:

http://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

The libfabric 1.0 release package, along with a 1.0 release of a set of sample applications (fabtests) is available from the OFA download site:

http://downloads.openfabrics.org/downloads/ofi/

libfabric was designed to be extensible, and the OFIWG is continuing to develop and enhance its API.  Participation in the OFIWG remains open to anyone, regardless of their membership in OFA.

Thanks,
Sean