[Mpi3-ft] Summary of today's meeting

[Mike Heffner]

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Greg Bronevetsky wrote:
>>       Application-directed C/R will still require some quiescence
>>       hooks from the MPI layer (ex: asyncronous progression by the MPI
>>       layer). There was some discussion on this.
> What kind of quiscence are you thinking of? It seems to me that 
> applications will simply need to ensure that either no messages are 
> in-flight at the time of the checkpoint or that all such messages have 
> been logged appropriately by the application.
> 

In an application-directed C/R system that would be the ideal MPI 
quiescence.

Mike


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