[Mpi3-ft] Error handling proposal

[Greg Bronevetsky]

Following our discussion at the last telecon I've drafted a proposal 
for handling faults in MPI and uploaded it to the Wiki. The proposal 
is available in both Word and pdf formats and I can upload a .txt 
version if people want. The proposal leaves several areas unspecified 
(highlighted in blue) because I wasn't sure how to organize some 
functionality that I think we should have. Any comments about the 
document are welcome.

I also notice that Alexander Supovalov uploaded an alternate fault 
handling proposal to the Wiki a while ago. Between these two drafts 
we should have a decent start towards putting something useful 
together. Please voice your initial thoughts over email so that we 
can handle more concrete issues at our face-to-face.

Greg Bronevetsky
Post-Doctoral Researcher
1028 Building 451
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
(925) 424-5756
bronevetsky1 at llnl.gov