Introduction

Intended Audience

These documents are intended to be used by software engineers who wish to develop application software that uses the Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) to accelerate the supported workloads and/or services.

Using This Document

This document collects most of the user guides and application notes to use the Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT). There is a section to get started, as well as further sections that cover specific topics such as virtualization, performance optimization, and others.

Firsts sections of this document include a Terminology section for most common terms used along the document, and the Release Notes which includes the latest updates introduced to the Intel® QAT driver.

Conventions and Terminology

The following conventions are used in this manual:

  • Code text - code examples, command line entries, Application Programming Interface (API) names, parameters, filenames, directory paths, and executables.

  • Bold text - graphical user interface entries, buttons, and actions in instructions.

  • Italic text - key terms and publication titles.

In this document, for convenience:

  • Software package is used as a generic term for the Intel® QAT Software Package for Hardware Version 2.0.

  • Acceleration driver is used as a generic term for the software that allows the Intel® QAT Software Library APIs to access the Intel® QAT Endpoint(s).

Note

Please refer to Release Notes for list of supported platforms.