[Mpi-comments] Inclusive language

Martin Schulz schulzm at in.tum.de
Mon Jun 15 02:09:19 CDT 2020


Dear Sajid,

Thank you for this comment - we certainly agree and we will address this in the next version of the MPI standard.

Martin

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Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Chair of Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems
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> On 14. Jun 2020, at 18:42, Sajid Ali via mpi-comments <mpi-comments at lists.mpi-forum.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi MPI-Forum, 
> 
> This is request to move away from the master-slave terminology currently used in the following locations in the 2019 draft specification :
>  - section 6.4.1 : page 256, line 46
>  - example 6.5.3 page 272 and page 273
> These would be better described by supervisor/executor or manager/worker or anything the members of "Groups, Contexts, Communicators, Caching" working group see fit.
> 
> Thank You, 
> Sajid Ali | PhD Candidate
> Applied Physics
> Northwestern University
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