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<p>Dick Treumann - MPI Team/TCEM <br>
IBM Systems & Technology Group<br>
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<tt>mpi-forum-bounces@lists.mpi-forum.org wrote on 04/24/2008 07:50:08 AM:<br>
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> Good points. I'm also a little uncomfortable with just 32 attributes <br>
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<tt>There are situations in standardization where deciding 32 bits is enough leads to very costly retrofit down the road because the implications of the decision become pervasive. IP addresses is a good example.</tt><br>
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<tt>In this case, the cost of being too conservative is that some day the MPI 6.0 Forum (which I hope not to be working on) will need to define a new MPI_Init call and deprecate the one that supports only 32 or 64 assertions.</tt><br>
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<tt>I am hopeful that we will never go beyond a dozen of so assertions.</tt></body></html>