The Open Fabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric communication services to applications. Libfabric is a software library instantiation of OFI.

http://ofiwg.github.io/libfabric/

Sean has been working on high-performance network software since the late 90s. He participated in the development of the original InfiniBand specification and has been an active member of OpenFabrics since its inception. He is a sub-maintainer of the Linux RDMA software tree, and is the major contributor to the RDMA CM, IB ACM, and rsockets. His current focus is on the design and development of libfabrics.