QATzip is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel® QuickAssist Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request(s) to the Intel® Chipset Series. QATzip produces data using the standard gzip* format (RFC1952) with extended headers or lz4* blocks with lz4* frame format. The data can be decompressed with a compliant gzip* or lz4* implementation. QATzip is designed to take full advantage of the performance provided by Intel® QuickAssist Technology.