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+## Introduction
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 FairMQ is designed to help implementing large-scale data processing workflows needed in next-generation Particle Physics experiments. FairMQ is written in C++ and aims to
   * provide **an asynchronous message passing abstraction** of different data transport technologies,
   * provide a reasonably **efficient data transport** service (zero-copy, high throughput),