Cisco Systems GEM318P User Manual

This section describes the supported APIs and includes the following topics:

API refers to software in the networking layer in user space.

MPI is a standard library functionality in C, C++, and Fortran that can be used to implement a 
message-passing program. MPI allows the coordination of a program running as multiple processes in a 
distributed memory environment. This document includes setup and configuration information for 
MVAPICH MPI. For more information, see 

uDAPL defines a single set of user-level APIs for all RDMA-capable transports. The uDAPL mission is 
to define a transport-independent and platform-standard set of APIs that exploits RDMA capabilities 
such as those present in IB. For more information, see 

Cisco tests and supports the SFS IB host drivers with Intel MPI. The Intel MPI implementation is 
available for separate purchase from Intel. For more information, visit the following URL: 

Cisco tests and supports the SFS IB host drivers with HP MPI for Linux. The HP MPI implementation 
is available for separate purchase from Hewlett Packard. For more information, visit the following URL: 

http://www.hp.com/go/mpi

The HCA utilities provide basic tools to view HCA attributes and run preliminary troubleshooting tasks. 
For more information, see