[Mpi-21] Formal MPI-2.1 Review
George Bosilca
bosilca at [hidden]
Sat Apr 26 13:09:35 CDT 2008
Rolf,
As you have the write token I didn't want to commit the changes
suggested by Kannan. Attached you will find the diff regarding the
chapter 8 (inquiry.tex).
george.
On Apr 26, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Narasimhan, Kannan wrote:
> Rolf,
>
> Apologies for missing the April 25 deadline. I've reviewed Chapters
> 8 and 9 in the MPI 2.1 draft, and it looks good -- the authors have
> done a wonderful job with the merge.
>
> Here is the "informal" review statement (since I wasn't sure if my
> minor edits fall under XXXX or YYYY category) of the formal
> statement :).
>
> The following is the list of edits required in each of these chapters:
>
> Chapter 8 ( MPI Environment Management )
>
> 1. Pg 265, 8.3 Error Handling (Line 12): Remove the phrase "On the
> other hand" and reword the sentence as follows: C and C++ have
> distinct typedefs for user defined error handling callback functions
> that accept communicator, file, and window arguments.
>
> 2. Pg 266, 8.3.1 Error Handlers for Communicators (Lines 22-26):
> Change all references to HANDLER_FUNCTION to
> {COMM,WIN,FILE}_ERRHANDLER_FN in the "Advice to users" para.
>
> 3. Pg 268, 8.3.2 Error Handlers for Windows (Line 13): ADD: Creates
> an error handler that can be attached to a window object.
>
> 4. Pg 269, 8.3.3 Error Handlers for Files (Line 24): ADD: Creates an
> error handler that can be attached to a file object.
>
> 5. Pg 270, 8.3.4 Freeing Error handlers and Retrieving Error
> Strings(Line 27-28): Change the sentence to: The error handler will
> be deallocated after all of the objects associated with it
> (communicator, window, or file) are deallocated.
>
> Chapter 9 (Miscellany)
>
> 1. Pg 283, 9.1 The Info Object (Line 26): Change the first sentence
> to: Many of the routines in MPI take an info argument.
>
> -Kannan-
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mpi-21-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:mpi-21-bounces_at_[hidden]
> ] On Behalf Of Rolf Rabenseifner
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:39 PM
> To: MPI 2.1 Mailing List
> Subject: [Mpi-21] Formal MPI-2.1 Review
>
> First, I want to thank all chapter authors for their fine work
> cleaning up all the MPI-1/-2 problems and achieving a single
> monolithic
> MPI-2.1 text.
>
> Dear reviewer,
>
> to handle about 20 chapters with in average 5 reviews per chapter, I
> would like to formalize it:
>
> On next Monday (Apr. 28, 2008), I would like to ask you whether you
> can make the following statement on the chapter(s) you voloteered
> for reviewing (I'll ask independently each reviewer on each chapter):
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Chap. ......... of MPI-2.1 Draft Apr. 19, 2008 represents fully and
> exactly (as I can overlook) the text that was given by MPI-1.1 (June
> 1995),
> MPI-2 (July 1997), MPI-1 errata (Oct. 12, 1998), Ballot 1+2 (May 15,
> 2002), Ballot 3 (protocol from March 2008 meeting, 1st vote), and
> Ballot 4 (protocol from March 2008 meeting, official reading) if the
> following text-modifications (they are already implemented in the
> current draft) are accepted by the MPI Forum:
> - XXXXX
> and if the following bugs will be corrected until first vote in June
> 2008 meeting:
> - YYYYY.
> Further comments (not official part of this review):
> - ZZZZZ
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Please do not use ZZZZZ for MPI-2.2 items or for any further
> enhancement.
>
> If there are such XXXXX, YYYYY, and ZZZZZ items, then I can include
> them into my slides, if you are sending it to me not later than
>
> Friday, April 25, 2008.
>
> All items that you detect later, you may bring to the MPI Forum with
> your own slide, plugging in your own laptop at the meeting.
>
> And same procedure for MPI-1.3 with only MPI-1 input.
>
> I hope this review process is fine with you.
>
> Exception: Review of Chap. 3 and 4 will be based on the text
> prepared by Rich Graham together with his reviewers this
> week, i.e. final reviews at the meeting will be done
> on MPI-2.1 Draft Apr. 26, 2008.
>
> Best regards from travel (currently Salishan conference, USA) Rolf
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Frontmatter:
> - Bill Gropp, Rusty Lusk
> Acknowledgements:
> - Richard Graham, Bill Gropp, Rusty Lusk Chap. 1:
> Introduction to MPI
> - Bill Gropp, Rusty Lusk, Karl Feind, Adam Moody, Jesper
> Traeff Chap. 2: MPI-2 Terms and Conventions
> - Tony Skjellum, Bill Gropp, Richard Barrett, Jesper Traeff
> Chap. 3: Point-to-Point Communication
> - Rich Graham, Jespar Larsson Traeff, George Bosilca,
> Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, David Solt, B. Gropp, Matt
> Koop,
> Adam Moody
> Chap. 3: Datatypes
> - Rich Graham, Jespar Larsson Traeff, George Bosilca,
> Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, David Solt, B. Gropp, Matt
> Koop,
> Adam Moody
> Chap. 5: Collective Communication
> - Adam Moody, Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Edgar Gabriel, Rajeev
> Thakur,
> Bill Gropp, Georg Bosilca, Torsten Hoefler, Jesper Traeff
> Chap. 6: Groups, Context, and Communicators
> - Richard Treumann, Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Edgar Gabriel,
> Tony
> Skjellum, Bill Gropp, Georg Bosilca, Robert Blackmore
> Chap. 7: Process Topologies
> - Jesper Traeff, Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp, Richard Barrett
> Chap. 8: MPI Environmental Management (incl. sections from MPI-2
> Misc.)
> - George Bosilca, Rich Graham, Jespar Larsson Traeff,
> Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, David Solt, B. Gropp Chap.
> 9: Miscellany
> - Jespar Larsson Traeff, Rich Graham, George Bosilca,
> Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, B. Gropp
> Chap.10: Process Creation and Management
> - David Solt, Dries Kimpe, Rusty Lusk, Georg Bosilca, Bill
> Gropp,
> Kalem Karian
> Chap.11: One-Sided Communication
> - Jespar Larsson Traeff, Ericsson-Zenith, Martin Schulz,
> Bill Gropp, Darius Buntinas
> Chap.12: External Interfaces
> - Bronis de Supinski, Bill Gropp
> Chap.13: I/O
> - Rajeev Thakur, Joachim Worringen, Bill Gropp, Rainer Keller
> Chap.14: Profiling Interface
> - Bronis de Supinski, Bill Gropp, Jeff Brown
> Chap.15: Deprecated Functions
> - Rolf Rabenseifner, Bill Gropp
> Chap.16: Language Bindings
> - Jeff Squyres, Steve Poole, Purushotham Bangalore,
> Bill Gropp, Erez Haba, Alexander Supalov
> Bibliography:
> - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp
> Annex A: Language Bindings Summary
> - Alexander Supalov, Jeff Squyres, Steve Poole, Purushotham
> Bangalore,
> Bill Gropp,
> Annex B: Change Log
> - Rolf Rabenseifner, Bill Gropp
> Index:
> - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp
>
> MPI-1.3: Bill Gropp, Rolf Rabenseifner, Adam Moody, Puri Bangalore,
> Terry Dontje
>
>
>
>
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