[Mpi-21] AUTHORS+REVIEWERS - reminder - Draft Apr. 12, 2008

Rolf Rabenseifner rabenseifner at [hidden]
Fri Apr 18 03:31:58 CDT 2008



Hi Adam,

okay. Please send me a short reply when you have finished
coll.tex.

Thanks and best regards
Rolf

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:01:18 -0700
 Adam Moody <moody20_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi Rolf,
> I'll need Friday the 18th to incorporate Torsten's comments into the 
> Collectives chapter.  I missed them when he first sent them.
> -Adam
> 
> Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:
> 
> >All authors (except Rich [pt2pt and datatypes]),
> >
> >- The authors get back the write-token until Thursday, Apr. 17.
> >  (If you need also Friday Apr. 18, then please inform me!!)
> >- All stuff that is not done until that point, will be defered to MPI-2.2!
> >
> >This is the last reminder and chance for latest updates **today**.
> >
> >(Details on the WORKPLAN, see mail below)
> >
> >Best regards
> >Rolf
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:05:37 +0200
> > "Rolf Rabenseifner" <rabenseifner_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Dear chapter author, dear reviewer,
> >>
> >>This e-mail is the first preparation of the official reading.
> >>Please read carefully.
> >>
> >>Again,we have a stable and consistent draft.
> >>It is SVN revision 108 and pdf and ps are on
> >>    http://www.hlrs.de/mpi/mpi21/doc/ 
> >>(username and password are mpi21)
> >>
> >>Nearly all chapters have received an update by the chapters' authors.
> >>Not finished is - as far as I can see
> >> - Point-to-point (may-be without MPI-1/2 problems] (Rich Graham)
> >> - Datatypes [it was split from Point-to-point]     (Rich Graham)
> >>and full MPI-2 based chapters (maybe without need for updates)
> >> - Terms (Tony Skjellum)
> >> - External Interfaces (Bronis de Supinski)
> >> - Profiling (Bronis de Supinski)
> >>Therefore, review can start in all chapters, except the datatype chapter.
> >>
> >>IMPORTANT for authors:
> >>If you make further modifications, please be sure that you use
> >>the macros and that your modification (or at least an delete-anchor) 
> >>is printed **red**. (Details on using the macros, see below.)
> >>Please check red color in the resulting mpi-report.pdf before you 
> >>svn commit your changes.
> >>As far as I can see, all changes up to now may have no problem 
> >>for acceptance by the Forum.
> >>At this late stage, I would recommend to do only changes that do 
> >>not need intensive debates at the Forum meeting. Such things 
> >>would be MPI-2.2 modifications.
> >>
> >>IMPORTANT for reviewers:
> >>- Please check very carefully all red or magenta changes.
> >>  Modifications are done by  the chapter's author (red) or 
> >>  by me (magenta).
> >>  You may be the first reviewer who read and check this text.
> >>- Please check carefully the cyan text.
> >>  Those modifications are proposed by a reviewer and have been
> >>  implemented by my
> >>  You may be the second reviewer for those modifications.
> >>- All green stuff should be fine, because it is based on
> >>  Forum's decisions (Ballot 1-4).
> >>- Original text is black (MPI-1.3) or blue (MPI-2.0).
> >>- Please make all comments in the format
> >>
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
> >>          All references are based on MPI-2.1 Draft Apr. 12, 2008
> >>ww.a  __  pnnn.ll text   (with nnn=page number and ll=line number
> >>          text continued
> >>          ...
> >>ww.b  __  pnnn.ll text ... and so on (total line length <= 82 characters.)
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>- Please send only review items that are in the category
> >>   -- ERROR, must be fixed.
> >>- If you want to send an item in the categories
> >>   -- Nice to have,
> >>   -- Editorial proposal (like move xxx to yyy),
> >>   -- Clarification which needs Forum decisions,
> >>   -- ...
> >>  then please substitute the __ by 22, because then it should be
> >>  handled in MPI-2.2. 
> >>
> >>This format is used in 
> >>http://www.hlrs.de/mpi/mpi21/doc/MPI-2.1draft-2008-02-23-review.txt
> >>where all reviews are filed in.
> >>(I'll substitute your xx by the next number. If you have more than
> >>26 items, then please continue with xx.a -- xx.z, yy.a - ...)
> >>
> >>Please use this format. I'll have only a few minutes between two flights
> >>to put all reviews together. 
> >> 
> >>WORKPLAN:
> >>- The authors get back the write-token until Thursday, Apr. 17.
> >>  (If you need also Friday Apr. 18, then please inform me!!)
> >>- All stuff that is not done until that point, will be defered to MPI-2.2!
> >>- I'm on travel and may not be able to respond on e-mails this week.
> >>- On Friday, Apr. 18 (or Saturday, Apr. 19), I will make the
> >>  final version for all final reviews and for the official reading.
> >>- Version Apr. 17 together with all your review mails will be the
> >>  basis for the official reading. 
> >>- Reviews until Friday, Apr. 25. according the format above.
> >>- Saturday, Apr. 26:
> >>  I will put all reviews together to have unique numbers.
> >>   
> >>Best regards
> >>Rolf
> >> 
> >>
> >>Annex: The rules for authors:
> >>
> >>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
> >>
> >>c) If you want to delete text (i.e. not only a move to another location),
> >>   the please us
> >>
> >>\mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEbegin% MPI-2.1 round-two - deleted-text-anchor
> >>Last word of the previous text
> >>\mpiiidotiMergeNEWforSINGLEendI%  MPI-2.1 round-two - end of anchor
> >>
> >>% MPI-2.1 round-two - begin of deteted text - Draft Apr.1, 2008 page/line-page/line
> >>% the text you delete must be preceded with "% "
> >>% deprecated text
> >>% ...
> >>% deprecated text
> >>% MPI-2.1 round-two - end of deteted text
> >>
> >>   Additionally, you must add this outcommented text to the end of
> >>   removed_source.tex 
> >>
> >>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.)
> >>
> >>-----------------------------------------------------
> >>Using svn:
> >>Before you start to make changes:
> >> 
> >>  cd ....your_directory..../trunk/MPI-2.1/
> >>  svn update
> >>
> >>to get the newest sources.
> >>
> >>After you made changes, please call make and check mpi-report.pdf
> >>to guarantee that all your changes are really highlighted with *red* color.
> >>
> >>When you make the first svn commit after you received a new username with
> >>write-permission, you must use the aditional option
> >>
> >>  --username your_new_user_name
> >>
> >>Please commit with 
> >>
> >>svn commit chap-xxxx/xxxx.tex -m 'MPI-2.1 - your name - what you have done'
> >>
> >>Please commit as soon as you finished the changes and after you have
> >>checked the red color.
> >>
> >>--------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>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)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >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)
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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)



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