fi_tcp(7) | @VERSION@ | fi_tcp(7) |
fi_tcp - The msg sockets Fabric Provider
The tcp provider can be used on any system that supports TCP sockets. The provider is not intended to provide performance improvements over regular TCP sockets, but rather to allow developers to write, test,and debug application code even on platforms that do not have high-performance fabric hardware.
The following features are supported
The tcp provider check for the following enviroment variables -
The tcp provider is implemented over TCP sockets to emulate libfabric API. Hence the performance may be lower than what an application might see implementing to sockets directly, depending on the types of data transfers the application is trying to achieve.
fabric(7), fi_provider(7), fi_getinfo(3)
OpenFabrics.
2020-04-14 | Libfabric Programmer's Manual |