CITATION.cff

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message: "If you use Basidium in academic or industrial fabric-qualification work, please cite it as below."
title: "Basidium: Multi-threaded Layer-2 Stress and Hardware Evaluation Tool for GPU Cluster Fabrics"
type: software
version: "2.6.1"
date-released: 2026-06-10
abstract: >-
  Basidium is a libpcap-based Layer-2 packet injection utility for stress-testing
  and qualifying lossless Ethernet fabrics that carry RoCE / RDMA traffic in GPU
  training clusters.  It supports CAM-table flooding, gratuitous ARP / DHCP /
  ND / IGMP / LLDP / STP storms, IEEE 802.1Qbb PFC PAUSE injection, VLAN range
  cycling, QinQ double-tagging, NCCL throughput correlation, multi-step Targeted
  Congestion Orchestration scenarios, and a regression-detection workflow built
  around bit-reproducible runs (--seed), JSON / CSV reports, fail-fast mid-run
  halts (--stop-on-degradation, --stop-on-failopen), and a step-by-step report
  diff tool (--diff).
authors:
  - family-names: Stits
    given-names: Matthew
    email: stits@stits.org
repository-code: "https://github.com/mstits/Basidium"
license: MIT
keywords:
  - ethernet
  - rdma
  - rocev2
  - pfc
  - nccl
  - gpu-cluster
  - network-fabric
  - stress-testing
  - hardware-qualification
  - regression-detection