def METHOD_NAME(
    ip_config,
    num_servers,
    max_queue_size=MAX_QUEUE_SIZE,
    group_id=0,
):
    """Connect this client to server.
    Parameters
    ----------
    ip_config : str
        Path of server IP configuration file.
    num_servers : int
        server count on each machine.
    max_queue_size : int
        Maximal size (bytes) of client queue buffer (~20 GB on default).
        Note that the 20 GB is just an upper-bound and DGL uses zero-copy and
        it will not allocate 20GB memory at once.
    group_id : int
        Indicates which group this client belongs to. Clients that are
        booted together in each launch are gathered as a group and should
        have same unique group_id.
    Raises
    ------
    ConnectionError : If anything wrong with the connection.
    """
    assert num_servers > 0, (
        "num_servers (%d) must be a positive number." % num_servers
    )
    assert max_queue_size > 0, (
        "queue_size (%d) cannot be a negative number." % max_queue_size
    )
    # Register some basic service
    rpc.register_service(
        rpc.CLIENT_REGISTER,
        rpc.ClientRegisterRequest,
        rpc.ClientRegisterResponse,
    )
    rpc.register_service(rpc.SHUT_DOWN_SERVER, rpc.ShutDownRequest, None)
    rpc.register_service(
        rpc.GET_NUM_CLIENT,
        rpc.GetNumberClientsRequest,
        rpc.GetNumberClientsResponse,
    )
    rpc.register_service(
        rpc.CLIENT_BARRIER, rpc.ClientBarrierRequest, rpc.ClientBarrierResponse
    )
    rpc.register_sig_handler()
    server_namebook = rpc.read_ip_config(ip_config, num_servers)
    num_servers = len(server_namebook)
    rpc.set_num_server(num_servers)
    # group_count means how many servers
    # (main_server + bakcup_server) in total inside a machine.
    group_count = []
    max_machine_id = 0
    for server_info in server_namebook.values():
        group_count.append(server_info[3])
        if server_info[0] > max_machine_id:
            max_machine_id = server_info[0]
    rpc.set_num_server_per_machine(group_count[0])
    num_machines = max_machine_id + 1
    rpc.set_num_machines(num_machines)
    machine_id = get_local_machine_id(server_namebook)
    rpc.set_machine_id(machine_id)
    rpc.set_group_id(group_id)
    rpc.create_sender(max_queue_size)
    rpc.create_receiver(max_queue_size)
    # Get connected with all server nodes
    max_try_times = int(os.environ.get("DGL_DIST_MAX_TRY_TIMES", 1024))
    for server_id, addr in server_namebook.items():
        server_ip = addr[1]
        server_port = addr[2]
        try_times = 0
        while not rpc.connect_receiver(server_ip, server_port, server_id):
            try_times += 1
            if try_times % 200 == 0:
                print(
                    "Client is trying to connect server receiver: {}:{}".format(
                        server_ip, server_port
                    )
                )
            if try_times >= max_try_times:
                raise rpc.DistConnectError(
                    max_try_times, server_ip, server_port
                )
            time.sleep(3)
    if not rpc.connect_receiver_finalize(max_try_times):
        raise rpc.DistConnectError(max_try_times)
    # Get local usable IP address and port
    ip_addr = get_local_usable_addr(server_ip)
    client_ip, client_port = ip_addr.split(":")
    # Register client on server
    register_req = rpc.ClientRegisterRequest(ip_addr)
    for server_id in range(num_servers):
        rpc.send_request(server_id, register_req)
    # wait server connect back
    rpc.wait_for_senders(client_ip, client_port, num_servers)
    print(
        "Client [{}] waits on {}:{}".format(os.getpid(), client_ip, client_port)
    )
    # recv client ID from server
    res = rpc.recv_response()
    rpc.set_rank(res.client_id)
    print(
        "Machine (%d) group (%d) client (%d) connect to server successfuly!"
        % (machine_id, group_id, rpc.get_rank())
    )
    # get total number of client
    get_client_num_req = rpc.GetNumberClientsRequest(rpc.get_rank())
    rpc.send_request(0, get_client_num_req)
    res = rpc.recv_response()
    rpc.set_num_client(res.num_client)
    from .dist_context import exit_client, set_initialized
    atexit.register(exit_client)
    set_initialized(True)