[Mpi-forum] MPI user survey

[Richard Treumann]

I will leave it to Alexander to for a question about subsetting if he
wishes to. Here is one about assertions.

The MPI standard provides certain semantic guarantees that may not be
required by a
particular application. It also provides functions that many applications
never use. If MPI-3
provided an "assertions" interface that would let an application identify
specific
functionality it does not depend on and an MPI library could improve
performance or reduce
memory usage by disabling that specific functionality, how valuable might
that interface  be?

Very valuable
Probably valuable
Probably useless
useless
harmful


Dick Treumann  -  MPI Team
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mpi-forum-bounces at lists.mpi-forum.org wrote on 11/17/2009 11:40:03 AM:

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> Re: [Mpi-forum] MPI user survey
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> Jeff Squyres
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> to:
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> Main MPI Forum mailing list
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> 11/17/2009 11:41 AM
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> On Nov 17, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Supalov, Alexander wrote:
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> > No objections - let's go for 2 separate questions, e.g.:
> >
> > "Do you want to achieve higher performance by disabling certain
> > MPI-3 features in your program?
>
> I do not think that this is a well-formed question.
>
> It directly states something that has not been well defined (or even
> accepted) by the Forum.  Specifically: it is *by no means guaranteed*
> that you will get higher performance by disabling certain MPI-3
> features.  Heck, we don't even know precisely what MPI-3 features will
> exist!
>
> > "If so, do you prefer subsetting or assertions?"
>
> The others questions contain at least a hint of context so that
> respondents have a clue as to how to answer.  This one explains
> neither "subsetting" nor "assertions".  I suspect that 95% of
> respondents will not know how to answer.
>
> --
> Jeff Squyres
> jsquyres at cisco.com
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