initialize

LibUserd.initialize(number_of_ranks: int = 0) → None

This call initializes the libuserd system. It causes the library to scan for available readers and set up any required reduction engine bits. It can only be called once.

Parameters:

number_of_ranksint, optional

The degree of I/O parallelism to read data with. Zero is serial I/O. Note: this option is not currently implemented and 0 should be used.