[Mpi-forum] MPI-2.1 Hardcover Book

[Yann Kalemkarian]

Hi Rolf,

I just saw your mail yesterday. After making a quick survey here,
we'll get 2 of them. Hope it's still possible to get it done. Skip
this demand if it complicates too much your process. 

Thanks for your work.

Yann.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:24:20PM +0200, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:
> ==== Please give a short reply if you want to buy the printed ====
> ==== hardcover MPI-2.1 at the MPI Forum meeting in Dublin!!   ====
> = I need to know the number of books that I must ship to Dublin. =
> ====      Please reply until Tuesday Jul. 29 directly to      ====
> ====               rabenseifner at hlrs.de                       ====
>
> Dear MPI Forum member,
>
> after
> - all the positive votes for MPI-2.1,
> - a positive discussion in the MPI Forum steering committee,
> - and a positive response from the EuroPVM/MPI'08 organizers,
> - the installation of the errata process for MPI-2.1,
>   (see http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/docs.html and
>   MPI-2.2 wiki pages)
> I decided to support the MPI community with a printed
> hardcover MPI-2.1 book (608 pages)
> - with offset printing and sewn binding, A5 format, and
> - exact content, page and line numbers of the standard.
>
> HLRS will sell these books at cost price (17 Euro).
> We are not a publisher. We do not sell the book in book stores.
> It is a special service for large HPC centers in Euro countries.
>
> And of course for
> - all participants of the MPI Forum meeting in Dublin,
> - all participants of EuroPVM/MPI'08 in Dublin.
>
> This book and the electronic counter part are the basis for
> all MPI-2.2 and MPI-3.0 discussions.
>
> To get an idea, how many books I should ship to Dublin, I need
> to know, when you want to buy one ore more.
>
> Please reply also if you are in the European Community and
> you need a large number for your HPC center.
> (I need to know it now, because shipping starts Aug. 1.)
>
> Best regards
> Rolf
>
> PS: I (and the MPI Forum steering committee) know well that there
>     is still the risk, that MPI-2.1 will never get a standard
>     if the MPI Forum votes "NO" at next meeting.
>     But I'm optimistic. That's my nature.
> PPS: To keep the price so small and to have it ready at EuroPVM/MPI,
>      and based on the expectation that MPI-2.2 will come end 2009,
>      I decided not to go through a normal publishing process.
>      My apologies for any inconvenience in non-Euro countries.
> PPPS: I expect that this book will be the first hardcover version
>       of MPI. Please give me details, if I'm wrong.
>
>
> Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseifner at hlrs.de
> High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530
> University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832
> Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner
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