[Mpi-forum] ABI working group is live

[Jeff Hammond]

The MPI ABI workgroup was approved.  You can sign up for the mailing list
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Jeff

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 9:54 AM Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know what we do to create new working groups with the post-COVID
> rules, but I would like to create and chair a WG focused on ABI
> standardization.
>
> There is strong support for this effort in many user communities,
> including developers and maintainers of Spack, mpi4py, Julia MPI (MPI.jl),
> Rust MPI (rsmpi), PETSc and NVHPC SDK, to name a few.  There are even a few
> implementers who have expressed support, but I won't name them for their
> own protection.
>
> The problem is so exasperating for our users that there are at least two
> different projects devoted to mitigating ABI problems (not including shims
> built in to the aforementioned MPI wrappers):
>
> https://github.com/cea-hpc/wi4mpi
> https://github.com/eschnett/MPItrampoline
>
> I've written about this a bit already, for those who are interested.  More
> material will be forthcoming once I have time for more experiments.
>
> https://github.com/jeffhammond/blog/blob/main/MPI_Needs_ABI.md
> https://github.com/jeffhammond/blog/blob/main/MPI_Needs_ABI_Part_2.md
> https://github.com/jeffhammond/blog/blob/main/MPI_Needs_ABI_Part_3.md
> https://github.com/jeffhammond/blog/blob/main/MPI_Needs_ABI_Part_4.md
>
> I understand this is a controversial topic, particularly for
> implementers.  I hope that we can proceed objectively.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Hammond
> jeff.science at gmail.com
> http://jeffhammond.github.io/
>


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