Communication library for bootstrapping MPI
SpawnNet provides three related packages for fast network communication,
targeted for communication between MPI processes and the process
launcher as well as between MPI processes.
spawnnet - A simple sockets-like interface for fast, reliable
point-2-point communication. Provides calls such as connect,
accept, read, write, and disconnect. Designed to be ported
over low-level networking interfaces. Current implementations
include TCP and IBUD (Infiniband Verbs Unreliable Datagram).
strmap - Data structure that maps one string to another string,
which provides for a collection of key-value pairs. Functions
are included to serialize and transfer strmap objects between
processes using spawnnet calls.
lwgrp - Provides light-weight process group representations
along with a few collectives and fast group splitting operations.
To include headers for all packages, include “spawn.h”.
To get started, see the examples README.
To build from a clone, review and run the buildme scripts:
# do this once to fetch and build necessary autotools versions./buildme_autotools# do this each time to build./buildme# alternatively./configure \--prefix=`pwd`/install \LDFLAGS="-libverbs" \--disable-silent-rulesmakemake install