[Mpi-21] Review of MPI-2.1 combined document

[Karl Feind]

Rolf & others,

I have completed my review of Chapter 1 of the MPI 1 + 2 merging 
document.

It looks pretty good.  

I did notice two sentences on page 4, section 1.4, lines 13 and 14
that apply to MPT 1.2 but not to MPI 2.  This seems wrong in an MPI 2.1
standard document.  Can we delete the following two sentences from the
merged document?

        "Although no explicit support for threads is provided, the
        interface has been designed so as not to prejudice their use. With
        this version of MPI no support is provided for dynamic spawning
        of tasks."

If we do that, we could combine the sentence at line 11 about MIMD and
SPMD with the next paragraph that starts at line 15.  This is the sentence
I'm referring to:

        "The interface is suitable for use by fully general MIMD
        programs, as well as those written in the more restricted style
        of SPMD."

Karl Feind

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:19:18PM +0100, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:
> The first draft of the combined document MPI 1.x plus MPI 2.0
> is ready for review !!!
> 
> All necessary files can be found via
> http://www.hlrs.de/mpi/mpi21/
> 
> The files are stored in a restricted directory to prohibit that
> search engines can find the drafts.
> 
> Dear reviewer:
> Please print your chapter with colors (!) and check all merging decisions.
> The colors will help to identify MPI 1.1-1.3 (black), 
> MPI-2.0 (magenta) and new text that was necessary for the merge (red).
> 
> The review should be finished a few days before the March meeting.
> Please post your review results on mpi-21_at_[hidden] as reply to this
> mail.
> 
> Please note, which chapter you reviewed.
> 
> Please refer with all comments exactly to page and line numbers of
>  - MPI 1.1, the official Postscript version
>  - MPI 2.0, the official Postscript version
>  - MPI 2.1, draft 2008-02-23 from http://www.hlrs.de/mpi/mpi21/
>  - and the merging plan 2008-02-23, that you can find at same directory
> 
> If you detect a problem, it is necessary that you try to propose
> a solution in similar notation as used in the merging plan.
> 
> I have finished all except the merging of the MPI-1 C++ bindings
> into the chapters' text, and except of merging the Annexes.
> 
> The Ballots 1-4 are also not included.
> In the moment, you need to review only the "merging". Nothing more.
> If you detect errors in the original standards, then please
> go through normal procedure, i.e., through the MPI 2.1 and MPI 2.2
> ballots.
> 
> And now, thank you very much that you have registered to do a 
> review (if you are on the list below, done in Jan.2008 meeting).
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Best regards
> Rolf
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Frontmatter: (I've done a new proposal for the abstract, please check)
>          - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp
> Chap. 1: Introduction to MPI 
>          - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp, Karl Feind, Adam Moody
> Chap. 2: MPI-2 Terms and Conventions 
>          - Tony Skjellum, Bill Gropp, Richard Barrett
> Chap. 3: Point-to-Point Communication (incl. sections from MPI-2 Misc. + 8.9) 
>          - Rich Graham, Jespar Larsson Traeff, George Bosilca,
>            Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, David Solt, B. Gropp, Matt Koop
> Chap. 4: Collective Communication (incl. sections from MPI-2 Ext. Collect.) 
>          - Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Edgar Gabriel, Rajeev Thakur,
>            Bill Gropp, Adam Moody, Georg Bosilca
> Chap. 5: Groups, Context, and Communicators 
>          (incl. sections from MPI-2 Ext.Col. + 8.8)
>          - Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Edgar Gabriel,
>            Bill Gropp, Georg Bosilca, Robert Blackmore
> Chap. 6: Process Topologies 
>          - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp, Richard Barrett
> Chap. 7: MPI Environmental Management (incl. sections from MPI-2 Misc.) 
>          - Rich Graham, Jespar Larsson Traeff, George Bosilca,
>            Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, David Solt, B. Gropp
> Chap. 8: Miscellany 
>          - Rich Graham, George Bosilca,
>            Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, B. Gropp
> Chap. 9: Process Creation and Management 
>          - Dries Kimpe, Rusty Lusk, Georg Bosilca, Bill Gropp,
>            Kalem Karian
> Chap. 10: One-Sided Communication 
>           - Ericsson-Zenith, Jespar Larsson Traeff, Martin Schulz,
>             Bill Gropp, Darius Buntinas
> Chap. 11: External Interfaces 
>           - Bronis de Supinski, Bill Gropp
> Chap. 12: I/O 
>           - Rajeev Thakur, Joachim Worringen, Bill Gropp
> Chap. 13: Language Bindings 
>           - Jeff Squyres, Steve Poole, Purushotham Bangalore,
>             Bill Gropp, Erez Haba, Alexander Supalov
> Chap. 14: Profiling Interface 
>           - Bronis de Supinski, Bill Gropp, Jeff Brown
> Bibliography: (is done automatically)
>           - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp
> Annex A:  (this chapter is not yet done - therefore no review for this)
>           - Jeff Squyres, Steve Poole, Purushotham Bangalore,
>             Bill Gropp, Alexander Supalov
> Index: (is done automatically)
>           - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp
> 
> 
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