[mpi-21] MPI 2.1 Abstract text

[Rolf Rabenseifner]

Erez, 

I used at the beginning MPI 1.1 and MPI-2 documents to reference the major
documents that have been produced by MPI-1 and MPI-2 Forum.
And I'm summarizing all other input in "and errata documents from the 
MPI Forum" (which are small compared to the work of MPI 1.1 and MPI-2).

At the beginning, I'm intentionally not separate 1.2 and 2.0.
I'm referencing the documents (i.e. "MPI 1.1 and MPI-2" and not 
"MPI 1.1 + 1.2 + 2.0") 
In the further parts of the abstract, I point to MPI 1.2 and MPI 1.3.

Best regards
Rolf

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:12:52 -0800
 Erez Haba <erezh_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>Shouldn't the first paragraph use the 1.3 version? (rather than 1.1 or 1.2) E.g.,
>
>This document describes the MPI standard version 2.1 in one
>combined document. This document combines the content from the
>previous standards "MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard,
><date>" (MPI-1.3) and "MPI-2: Extensions to the
>Message-Passing Interface, July, 1997" (MPI-1.3 and MPI-2.0)
>and errata documents from the MPI Forum.
>
>
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>
>Rolf:
>
>Re:
>> This is the currently proposed Abstract for MPI 2.1:
>
>A couple minor editing suggestions:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>This document describes the MPI standard version 2.1 in one
>combined document. This document combines the content from the
>previous standards "MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard,
>June 12, 1995" (MPI-1.1) and "MPI-2: Extensions to the
>Message-Passing Interface, July, 1997" (MPI-1.2 and MPI-2.0)
>and errata documents from the MPI Forum.
>The standard MPI-1.1 includes point-to-point message passing,
>collective communications, group and communicator concepts,
>process topologies,  environmental management, and a profiling
>interface. Language bindings for C and Fortran are defined.
>The MPI-1.2 chapter of the MPI-2 document contains clarifications
>and corrections to the MPI-1.1 standard and defines MPI-1.2.
>Together with corrections, these MPI-1 documents were combined
>to MPI 1.3 (<data>, 2008) which was used as input for this document.
>The second input is the MPI-2 part of the MPI-2 document, which
>describes additions to the MPI-1 standard and defines the
>MPI standard version 2.0. These include miscellaneous topics,
>process creation and management, one-sided communications,
>extended collective operations, external interfaces, I/O,
>and additional language bindings (C++). Additional clarifications
>and errata corrections to MPI-2.0 are also included.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I changed "book" to "document" for consistency, and added a
>"The " and a comma needed for grammatical correctness.
>
>Bronis
>
>> It is based on the abstract of MPI 2.0.
>> MPI 1.1 hadn't any abstract.
>>
>> This abstact should tell the main features of MPI.
>> It should not give a full history. This is done by the versions page.
>> Hints from the MPI Forum meeting Jan. 2008 are also included,
>> i.e., the major sources are referenced, but also the steps
>> between, i.e., the clarifications and MPI 1.3.
>>
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>>
>> I have sent out this mail with CC through the old general list
>> mpi-21_at_[hidden]
>>
>> Best regards
>> Rolf
>>
>>
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