[mpi3-coll] Non-blocking Collectives Proposal Draft

[Supalov, Alexander]

Dear Torsten,

Thanks for the proposal. A couple of comments in the more old-fashioned
way.

Generally, some sentences start with lower case letters that should be
capitalized.

Page 3, top. We probably should not explain here how to ensure progress
for nonblocking ops. This matter should be covered by the general
progress description elsewhere.

Page 3, lower half. Look how progress is defined in this list by
referring to the pt2pt progress rules.

Ibid. There are already 3 classes of requests: pt2pt, generalized, and
file I/O ones.

Page 3, bottom. How many nonblocking ops can overlap with a blocking
one? I.e., can one have the following situation:

Process 0			Process 1

MPI_Ibarrier(req)		MPI_Ibarrier(req)
MPI_Wait(req)
MPI Bcast			MPI_Bcast
				MPI_Wait(req)

Page 5, bottom. 32767 simultaneous ops to support is a tall order. I'd
say, 1 (one) would be a good lower limit, thus allowing no overlap. Or
even 0 (zero), meaning no nonblocking collective support at all. The
rest of this passage would probably be better reformulated as an advice
to implementors.

In the margin: editing a PDF requires creativity (exemplified by the
earlier comments) or a pretty expensive Acrobat. Maybe we can find some
other way of distributing and commenting on our drafts?

Best regards.

Alexander

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[mailto:mpi3-coll-bounces at lists.mpi-forum.org] On Behalf Of Torsten
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Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:47 PM
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Subject: [mpi3-coll] Non-blocking Collectives Proposal Draft

Hello Working Group,
I finished a first draft of our non-blocking collectives proposal.
Please read it carefully and send comments to me or the list (e.g.,
marked-up pdf documents).

The draft is attached to this mail.

All the Best,
  Torsten

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