[mpiwg-coll] deprecating MPI_GRAPH_CREATE?

Torsten Hoefler htor at inf.ethz.ch
Mon Dec 1 09:51:03 CST 2014


Jeff,

There is no such proposal yet (afaik), I'd support a carefully crafted 
one and I think I wouldn't be alone.

Thanks & Best,
	Torsten

On 01.12.2014 06:41, Jeff Hammond wrote:
> Regarding http://lists.mpi-forum.org/mpiwg-coll/2014/03/0289.php, is
> there a proposal to deprecate MPI_GRAPH_CREATE?  It seems that there
> are many issues with it and they are deliberately not getting fixed
> because a subset of the issues with it make it too horrible to fix.
>
> I find this situation distasteful as it leads to a poor user
> experience.  Let's do the right thing and put MPI_GRAPH_CREATE out of
> our misery sooner rather than later.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>

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