In this slidecast, Jeff Squyres from Cisco describes the proposed successor to the Linux verbs API that is designed to better serve the needs of MPI.
A few months ago, Sean Hefty from Intel started an effort to design a new low-level network API to replace libibverbs. That is, it’s not libibverbs 2.0 — it’s a new API that aims to both expand the scope of what libibverbs did, and also to address many of its much-criticized shortcomings.”
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