[Mpi3-hybridpm] SHMEM Interface in Draft External Interfaces

[Jeff Squyres]

In fact, chapter 2 explicitly says that handles only have meaning in the local process.


On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Hubert Ritzdorf wrote:

>> 
>>> 
>>> MPI_Comm_shm_attach() is a little tricky - in the current proposal I
>>> don't think we've defined the shm handle to be portable.  Can we make it
>>> valid to send this to another node-local process in order for them to
>>> call attach?
>>> 
>> 
>> Is there an example in MPI where we allow sending an MPI handle to
>> object between ranks? This seems like a bad idea to me.
>> 
> 
> No, there isn't.
> 
> Hubert
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