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librpma: Remote Persistent Memory Access Library

⚠️ Discontinuation of the project

The rpma project will no longer be maintained by Intel.

• Intel has ceased development and contributions including, but not limited to, maintenance, bug fixes, new releases, or updates, to this project.
• Intel no longer accepts patches to this project.
• If you have an ongoing need to use this project, are interested in independently developing it, or would like to maintain patches for the open source software community, please create your own fork of this project.
• You will find more information here.

Introduction

The Remote Persistent Memory Access (RPMA) Library is a C library to simplify accessing persistent memory on remote hosts over Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). For more information, see pmem.io.

Installing

If you want to install this library, check out the INSTALL.md file.

Examples

Examples of usage of this library are located in the ./examples/ directory and described in the ./examples/README.md file.

Development

If you want to develop this library, read the DEVELOPMENT.md file.

Contributing

If you want to contribute to the development of this library, you should get familiar with all the following files: INSTALL.md, DEVELOPMENT.md and CONTRIBUTING.md.

Thread safety

The analysis of thread safety of the librpma library is located in the THREAD_SAFETY.md file.

Contact Us

For more information on this library, contact Tomasz Gromadzki (tomasz.gromadzki@intel.com), Lukasz Dorau (lukasz.dorau@intel.com), Piotr Balcer (piotr.balcer@intel.com), or post to our Google group.

More Info

Persistent Memory Over Traditional RDMA White Paper - Part 1 - which describes a technology behind RPMA. Note: Parts 2-4 relates directly to the librpmem library which is a predecessor of librpma. So parts 2-4 do not relate exactly to how librpma works.