[Mpi-22] mpi-22 Digest, Vol 2, Issue 7

[Supalov, Alexander]

Hi,

We may want to see whether communicator-bound restriction will help down
there. For example, even one communicator with dynamic processes enabled
may "taint" the progress engine enough to make any saving from the
absence of one-sided elsewhere disappear.

On the other hand, attaching attributes to the MPI_COMM_WORLD, although
not fully clean and properly timed, might be a way to spread the
assertions across the job, and let libraries cut their proper part out.
Same with windows and files, by the way. How and when will this pass
down to the progress engine? I don't know. Do you?

Best regards.

Alexander

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To: MPI 2.2
Subject: Re: [Mpi-22] mpi-22 Digest, Vol 2, Issue 7

On May 5, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Supalov, Alexander wrote:

> Thank you. We can actually introduce what you propose, possibly with  
> a query function to make it still easier to live with, as early as  
> in MPI 2.2, as a subset precursor. Judging by the discussion in  
> Chicago, subsets may not need much more than that in the end,  
> possibly with a little more flags and semantics added in MPI-3.
>
> The reservation against 32- (or for that matter, 64-) bit limitation  
> is the only one I have at the moment. Not being able to attach  
> assertions to communicators, etc. may be missed by some advanced  
> programmers, but here we need to be pragmatic: who will ever want to  
> go that deep?

Libraries that build on top of MPI may want to.  This was one of the  
prime motivations for communications, right?  (private/safe  
communications)  As Quincy stated in Chicago and on the mailing list  
(IIRC), what if a top-level app sets an assertion that a library using  
MPI can't live with?  Being able to set them per-communicator might  
alleviate that issue.


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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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