[Mpi-forum] Reminder: MPI Virtual Meeting THIS Wednesday Oct. 17.

[Rolf Rabenseifner]

For me, all date+time are okay.
Rolf

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> Cc: "Anthony Skjellum" <skjellum at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 6:24:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mpi-forum] Reminder: MPI Virtual Meeting THIS Wednesday Oct. 17.

> Dear Forum Members:
> 
> We would like to schedule a meeting about "new language bindings" as an action
> item from our virtual last meeting (just ended).
> 
> This covers this topic with sub-topics raised in the Virtual Meeting (plus
> more):
> 
> "MPI object that contains an entire language binding" ... which is due to Jeff
> Squyres :-)
> 
> With these questions (among others to be answered)
> --- How to descrtibe this, such as with a normative header, from C, C++, Fortran
> --- How to guarantee that a given library (e.g., MPI-4) can also allow internal
> and layered components (e.g., MPI3) to work.
> [Imagine an MPI-3 based library receiving a communicator from an MPI-4 main
> program in this way]
> --- How this approach can alleviate the need for the following
> a) _X Big MPI APIs, because the MPI.fn() [maybe MPI->fn() in C] provides the old
> and new APIs either through multiplicity
> of APIs, or through compile-time polymorphism
> b) Explanation of how this is strongly typed at compile time
> c) Explanation of how this works with PMPI and tools (or what changes it may
> imply)
> d) DIscussion of how this could interact with
> --- eliminating MPI_COMM_WORLD and new MPI_Init() variants
> --- Sessions and Topological groups
> --- Subset APIs
> --- Fault Tolerance
> [others?]
> e) Timing of such a proposal once we agree to formalize it. Probably December.
> TBD.
> 
> 
> Right now, I am proposing 9am US Eastern on October 31, 2018 (Halloween in the
> US and elsewhere), since some of you may find this to be a scary conversation.
> This is 2 hours before our next virtual meeting (11am Eastern on 10/31). Alt
> time: 10am Same day. Third alternative, November 2 @ 8am eastern.
> 
> AGAIN:
> 9am Eastern, 10/31
> 10am Eastern, 10/31 (right before Virtual Meeting)
> 8am Eastern, 11/1 ,
> 
> Of those of you who would actually attend, do these possible times work :-) .
> [Let me know -- if you can make and can't make, and I'll try to intersect the
> data.]
> 
> If all time fails, I will do a formal doodle poll.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 5:10 AM Martin Schulz via mpi-forum < [
> mailto:mpi-forum at lists.mpi-forum.org | mpi-forum at lists.mpi-forum.org ] > wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just as a reminder, today (i.e., THIS Wednesday) we will have our next virtual
> meeting in this quarter. The webex information can be reached via
> 
> [ https://www.mpi-forum.org/meetings/ | https://www.mpi-forum.org/meetings/ ]
> 
> The topic will be “MPI_T Events” and Marc-Andre will lead the discussion.
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
> 
> —
> Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Chair of Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems
> Department of Informatics, TU-Munich, Boltzmannstraße 3, D-85748 Garching
> [ mailto:schulzm at in.tum.de | Email: schulzm at in.tum.de ]
> 
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