[Mpi3-ft] Defining the state of MPI after an error

Darius Buntinas buntinas at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Sep 22 13:06:59 CDT 2010


Umm, yeah.  Let's say a high quality implementation that cannot tolerate faults.  But I agree with your statement.

-d

On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Terry Dontje wrote:

> That's funny, because I was thinking a high quality implementation would never return CANNOT_CONTINUE but more distinct error codes that lets an application to recover.  I would think very few errors would actually completely obliterate an MPI library's internal structures.  At least the implementations I've seen that's seems to be the case.





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