<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div>Hi,</div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The MPI 3 standard includes some very nice features, which I'm</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> impatient to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">leverage in my projects, but being still recent, most platforms </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">today (at </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">least all production platforms I have access to) do not provide an </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">implementation of it. I'm curious when do you think we will be able</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> to say </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">that a majority of platforms provide MPI 3, and that a code that </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">uses MPI 3 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">can be seen as portable? (how long did it take between the release </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">MPI 2 standard and its availability on most platforms?) Are you </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">aware of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">platforms that already provide it?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Best,</span></div><br><div><span name="x"></span><font size="2"><font size="3">Matthieu Dorier<br>
</font>PhD student at ENS Cachan Brittany and IRISA<br><a href="http://people.irisa.fr/Matthieu.Dorier">http://people.irisa.fr/Matthieu.Dorier</a></font><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>