[Mpi-forum] Implementation of 2.2 and Thursday MPI session atEuroPVM/MPI

[Terry Dontje]

Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Open MPI is just starting our MPI-2.2 efforts.  A preliminary look 
> seems to indicate that there isn't too much work, but I haven't had a 
> chance to make a timeline estimate yet.
>
Since Sun's MPI is based off of Open MPI it is tied to Open MPI's 
schedule for MPI-2.2 support.

--td
> On Sep 7, 2009, at 1:53 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:
>
>> Rich and
>> Rajeev, Jeff, Dick, Rolf V., Erez, Naoki Sueyasu, Yann, David,
>> Mark, Hubert and Jesper, Alexander and Keith, David Gingold
>> (i.e., all who are mentioned on the attached slide),
>>
>> on this Thursday (Sep.10, 2009), I expect, you will present MPI-2.2
>> at EuroPVM/MPI in the "MPI forum information session" (3-4pm).
>>
>> One question will be, when it is to expect that MPI-2.2 will be
>> available as MPI libraries.
>>
>> The number of new routines and enhancements is small.
>> I would expect, that the question from last year slide should be
>> modified into "available at SC09?"
>>
>> I can imagine that mpich2 and OpenMPI have a real opportunity
>> to met such a goal.
>>
>> I hope, all MPI implementors can give you a rough estimate when
>> their MPI libraries will be MPI-2.2 compliant.
>>
>> For me, this is also the answer to the question, when users should
>> substitute their old MPI-2.1 books by the new MPI-2.2 book:
>> https://fs.hlrs.de/projects/par/mpi/mpi22/
>>
>> Best regards
>> Rolf
>>
>> 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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>>
>> <mpi21-implementation-slide.pdf><ATT16838761.txt>
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