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FYI to Christoph and Julien, I think that alltoallv/w operations with zero counts are deserving special consideration too … why would we require a barrier ? ; allowing a barrier is acceptable … with neighbors, there is little conceptual difference</div>
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<div dir="auto">FYI to Christoph and Julien, I think that alltoallv/w operations with zero counts are deserving special consideration too … why would we require a barrier ? ; allowing a barrier is acceptable … with neighbors, there is little conceptual difference from zero counts for some sources and sinks, so we must be consistent.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The term synchronizing collective means</div><div dir="auto">— must </div><div dir="auto">Or</div><div dir="auto">— may </div><div dir="auto">?? That is confusing. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Clearly barrier must… what about persistent allreduce implemented via 1-sided inside … is there for sure a barrier effect ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am worried about this detail to define partitioned collectives too. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Tony <br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Anthony Skjellum, PhD<br><a href="mailto:skjellum@gmail.com" target="_blank">skjellum@gmail.com</a><br>Cell: +1-205-807-4968<div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM Christoph Niethammer via mpiwg-hw-topology <<a href="mailto:mpiwg-hw-topology@lists.mpi-forum.org">mpiwg-hw-topology@lists.mpi-forum.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Hello everyone, During the preparation for the FRM, a question was raised regarding whether and how the semantics of collectives apply to neighborhood collectives. [1] This question stemmed from remark 18) in the summary table in Appendix A. 2,</div>
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<div><pre style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word">Hello everyone,
During the preparation for the FRM, a question was raised regarding
whether and how the semantics of collectives apply to neighborhood collectives. [1]
This question stemmed from remark 18) in the summary table in Appendix A.2,
which was used to apply the semantics of collectives to neighbourhood
collectives at this place.
The discussions expanded during the March meeting to the question of whether remark 18,
stating that "all-to-all collectives *must* synchronize (with some restrictions)",
is correct. [2]
I would like to invite you all to discuss these two issues in more detail during a
Topologies WG meeting on March 27th at 15:00, as part of our regular WG slot.
Best regards
Christoph Niethammer
[1] <a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/863__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!edo6G3QE7JbjtZTTusbpg5yIgnpGmlkZf6PJXEhK0BIFo_p25xzgJ-iVjVZhEuL7z3exLA62R0MjXhpEVDjC5QAigTtN4tiyDa1MnE8$" target="_blank">https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/863__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!edo6G3QE7JbjtZTTusbpg5yIgnpGmlkZf6PJXEhK0BIFo_p25xzgJ-iVjVZhEuL7z3exLA62R0MjXhpEVDjC5QAigTtN4tiyDa1MnE8$</a>
[2] <a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/971__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!edo6G3QE7JbjtZTTusbpg5yIgnpGmlkZf6PJXEhK0BIFo_p25xzgJ-iVjVZhEuL7z3exLA62R0MjXhpEVDjC5QAigTtN4tiyWCbeaNg$" target="_blank">https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/971__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!edo6G3QE7JbjtZTTusbpg5yIgnpGmlkZf6PJXEhK0BIFo_p25xzgJ-iVjVZhEuL7z3exLA62R0MjXhpEVDjC5QAigTtN4tiyWCbeaNg$</a>
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