[mpi-21] MPI 2.1 Versions history

[Jeff Squyres]

This looks good enough to me.  Note that the <date> for Version 2.0 is  
July 18 (as cited in the 2.1 bullet).

On Jan 18, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:

> This is the currently proposed Versions History as shown on the
> back-page of the title page
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Version 2.1: <date>, 2008.   This document combines the previous
> documents MPI 1.3 (????, 2008) and MPI-2.0 (July 18, 1997).
> Certain parts of MPI 2.0, such as some sections of Chapter 4,
> Miscellany, and Chapter 7, Extended Collective Operations have
> been merged into the Chapters of MPI 1.3. Additional errata and
> clarifications collected by the MPI Forum are also included in
> this document.
>
> Version 1.3: <date>, 2008.   This document combines the previous
> documents MPI 1.1 (June 12, 1995) and the MPI 1.2 Chapter in MPI-2
> (July 18, 1997). Additional errata collected by the MPI Forum
> referring to MPI 1.1 and MPI 1.2 are also included in this
> document.
>
> Version 2.0: <date>, 1997.   Beginning after the release of
> MPI 1.1, the MPI Forum began meeting to consider corrections and
> extensions. MPI-2 has been focused on process creation and
> management, one-sided communications, extended collective
> communications, external interfaces and parallel I/O. A miscellany
> chapter discusses items that don't fit elsewhere, in particular
> language interoperability.
>
> Version 1.2: July 18, 1997.   The MPI-2 Forum introduced MPI 1.2 ...
>
> Version 1.1: June, 1995.   Beginning in March, 1995, the Message ...
>
> Version 1.0: June, 1994.   The Message Passing Interface Forum ...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It is based on the existing text from MPI 1.1
> (For completness, I repeated the already voted text about MPI 1.3)
> The words "Version x.x: date, year" will be printed bold face
> (as shown in MPI 1.1 on the second frontmatter page).
>
> Are there proposals for modifications?
>
>
> Discussion should be done through the new mailing list
> mpi-21_at_cs.uiuc.edu.
>
> I have sent out this mail with CC through the old general list
> mpi-21_at_[hidden]
>
> Best regards
> Rolf
>
>
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>


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Jeff Squyres
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