[Mpi-21] TODO - AUTHORS of MPI-2.1 - Workplan
Jeff Squyres
jsquyres at [hidden]
Wed Apr 2 16:21:44 CDT 2008
I hate to throw up another red flag, but as I was paging through the
doc, I was wondering if Chapter 13 (C++/F90) should go away, and have
all that content merged elsewhere in the doc:
- most would go to Terms and Conventions
- some would go to Point-to-Point Communication (e.g., the stuff about
Comm::Clone() and friends)
- ...etc.
I can make a specific proposal about this, but would want some
feedback that people generally thought it was a good idea first.
On Apr 2, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Bronis R. de Supinski wrote:
>
>
> Rolf:
>
> I have not gone through Chapter 11 thoroughly yet but I have
> already noticed some major changes that I would suggest.
>
> First Section 11.6: "Decoding a Datatype" seems out of place
> in the merged document. It would make sense to me to have all
> of the datatype functions together. If we don't make datatypes
> a separate chapter, then this section (11.6) should be moved
> into chapter 3, near section 3.12: "Derived Datatypes". Ideally,
> it would be merged into that section since it is clearly part
> of that functionality.
>
> Second, Section 11.5: "Error Classes, Error Codes, and Error
> Handlers" is strongly related to Section 7.3: "Error Handling",
> and Section 7.4: "Error Codes and Classes". Clearly, these
> sections should be merged. In fact, this overlap makes me ask
> why have we not merged Chapters 7 and 11? What is the difference
> between "Environmental Management" and "External Interfaces"?
>
> I think this question needs to be resolved before I go further
> on working on Chapter 11. Perhaps George and I should coordinate
> merging these chapters after I coordinate moving the datatype
> decoding functionality into chapter 3 with Rich...
>
> Bronis
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Bronis R. de Supinski wrote:
>
>>
>> Rolf:
>>
>> I have finished editing chapter 14: Profiling. I have
>> attached the modified prof.tex since I do not yet have
>> write access. More importantly, either there is a problem
>> with the 2.1 macros or I am doing something wrong (I think
>> it is the first but I am not LaTex fluent enough to be
>> certain). Specifically, the first letter of the word
>> following the end markers does not appear in the generated
>> PDF. I would appreciate it if you could look into which it is.
>>
>> Another observation is that the macro does not work around
>> empty sections. In particular, I tried to mark the section
>> that I moved with the macros, with the original text commented
>> out. I tried to do the same for some MPI-1.0 text that was
>> contradictory to or redundant with the text that I moved.
>> Having those empty macro regions caused the compile to fail.
>> It might be nice to have some way to flag the deleted text,
>> with the convention, at least for now, of just commenting
>> it out and not to delete it entirely from the file.
>>
>> Let me know if I am doing things right here and then I will
>> move on to fixing chapter 11: External Interfaces. Thanks,
>>
>> Bronis
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Bill, Tony, Rich, Adam, Dick, Jesper, George, David, Bronis,
>>> Rajeev, Jeff, and Alexander,
>>>
>>> you are responsible for one ore more chapters of MPI-2.1 until the
>>> meeting.
>>>
>>> It is a tough schedule:
>>> -----------------------
>>>
>>> * Tues, April 1, my ROUND ONE is finished and the write token is
>>> logically passed to all chapter authors:
>>> - You have read access to the source (via SVN) and the pdf.
>>> - You have write access to your local SVN copy.
>>> - You will get write access to the SVN in a few days.
>>> * Fri., April 11, chapter authors have finished ROUND TWO.
>>> - This is a hard deadline (because I've to go on travel)
>>> * Sat., April 12, I will produce mpi-report.pdf as basis for review
>>> (I cannot do later, because April 14-17, I'm on travel)
>>> * Mon.-Thu., April 14-17, strong review by the reviewer group
>>> * Fri., April 18, reviews - if necessary must be included -
>>> by the chapter authors
>>> * Sat., April 19, I will produce final mpi-report.pdf
>>> which is basis for
>>> - final reviews through the reviewer group
>>> - official reading at the April 28-30, 2008 meeting.
>>> (I cannot do later because I'm on travel April 20-26)
>>>
>>> The goals of your work as chapter author:
>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>
>>> - Remove references to MPI-1 and MPI-2.
>>> - Substitute by MPI.
>>> - Necessary modifications to achieve this goal.
>>>
>>> With this, we should have a single MPI-2.1 standard that does
>>> not "know" the MPI-1 or MPI-2 history of individual functions.
>>>
>>> ** This should be mainly a task in the area of chapter-
>>> introductions.
>>> ** Please, never change the wording of function definitions.
>>>
>>> Exceptions:
>>> - There are routines that are deprecated and that are
>>> already referenced in a consistent way.
>>> My recommendation:
>>> Current wording:
>>> There are *new* function, and existing are now deprecated.
>>> Proposal:
>>> There are functions, and there exist also deprecated functions
>>> with (nearly) same functionality but deprecated due to some lack
>>> in the bindings (or functionality)
>>> - There is history information in the frontmatter.
>>> - there is a change-log annex with limited memory (only previous
>>> version)
>>>
>>> Technical editing rule:
>>> -----------------------
>>>
>>> You must identify all of your changes:
>>>
>>> a) new/modified wording - you are highlighting your new/modified
>>> wording with:
>>>
>>> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEbegin% MPI-2.1 round-two - begin of
>>> modification
>>> .... your modified / new wording ....
>>> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendI% MPI-2.1 round-two - end of
>>> modification
>>>
>>> b) Moved paragraphs, sentences, ... - you are highlighting the
>>> first word
>>> of the moved text with:
>>>
>>> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEbegin% MPI-2.1 round-two - begin of
>>> text-move
>>> First-word
>>> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendI% MPI-2.1 round-two - ongoing text-
>>> move
>>> ... rest of the moved text....
>>> % MPI-2.1 round-two - end of text-move
>>>
>>> Caution: These macros work only in black parts of the text.
>>>
>>> In blue parts you must substitute
>>> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendI%
>>> by
>>> \mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendII%
>>>
>>> The highlighting is done with red color.
>>> (There are only a few other sentences from me magenta.
>>> Therefore red should be the best to highlight the round-two
>>> modifications.)
>>>
>>> Rsponsibilities:
>>> ----------------
>>>
>>> * Frontmatter mpi-report.tex Bill Gropp
>>> * Acknowledgements credits.tex Rich Graham(text) +
>>> Rolf(emails-auth.)
>>> * 1. Introduction intro.tex Bill Gropp
>>> - 2. Terms terms-2.tex Tony Skjellum
>>> * 3. Point-to-point pt2pt.tex Rich Graham
>>> * 4. Collectives coll.tex Adam Moody
>>> * 5. Groups, etc. context.tex Dick Treumann
>>> - 6. Toplogies topol.tex Jesper Traeff
>>> * 7. Environment inquiry.tex George Bosilca
>>> - 8. Miscellany misc-2.tex Jesper Traeff
>>> - 9. Process Crea... dynamic-2.tex David Solt
>>> - 10. One-sided Comm one-sided-2.tex Jepser Traeff
>>> - 11. External Int. ei-2.tex Bronis de Supinski
>>> - 12. IO io-2.tex Rajeev Thakur
>>> - 13. Lang.Binding binding-2.tex Jeff Squyres
>>> - 14. Profiling prof.tex Bronis de Supinski
>>> - 15. Deprecated deprecated.tex Rolf Rabenseifner
>>> - Annex A Lang.Bind. appLang*.tex, MAKE-APPLANG Alexander Supalov
>>> - Annex B Change-log changes.tex Rolf Rabenseifner
>>> - Bibliography refs.bib Bill Gropp
>>> - Index MAKE-FUNC-INDEX Rolf Rabenseifner
>>>
>>> Legende: - Chapter is mainly taken from MPI-1.1 or MPI-2.0,
>>> only small work expected
>>> * There was a significant merge, or new text, or ...,
>>> more work expected
>>>
>>> I wish you a good start and good luck with your chapter.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Rolf
>>>
>>>
>>> Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email
>>> rabenseifner_at_[hidden]
>>> High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone +
>>> +49(0)711/685-65530
>>> University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 /
>>> 685-65832
>>> Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/
>>> rabenseifner
>>> Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany . (Office: Allmandring 30)
>>>
--
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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