[Mpi-forum] Request for Reading: Clarify alignment of memory provided to applications

[Joseph Schuchart]

Dear MPI forum members,

[Apologies for double-posting, I did not receive a notification for my 
previous mail and it does not show up in the archives]

I would like to request a reading of the changes proposed in issue #121 
"Clarify alignment of memory provided to applications": 
https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/121.

The changes to the standard text are detailed in PR #96 and include a 
requirement for proper alignment suitable for load/store accesses of 
predefined MPI types and adds a new info key to allow users to request 
bigger alignments:
https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-standard/pull/96/files.

A PDF file with the proposed changes highlighted can be found here:
https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/files/2874936/mpi-report.pdf

This issue has been discussed in the RMA-WG before and I would like to 
propose this for MPI 4.0. I am not familiar with the internal processes 
of the MPI forum so please let me know if there are any issues with this 
request.

Many thanks in advance,
Joseph Schuchart
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Dipl.-Inf. Joseph Schuchart
High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
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