[Mpi3-hybridpm] Better Forum INIT/FINALIZE slides

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

Here's a new copy of the slides; if we have time today, we can discuss.

I took all feedback, except I disagreed with Steve's #5 and #8.



On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Some comments --
>
> 1. Slide 2: The main goals need to be rephrased.  The goals are to overcome limitations while using MPI in stacked and threaded libraries.  For stacked libraries, the single INIT/FINALIZE limitation requires each library to have global knowledge on who else is using MPI.  For threaded libraries, there are race conditions.
>
> 2. Slide 5: Sorry, I missed this earlier.  I'm not in favor of changing the current definitions of IS_INITIALIZED and IS_FINALIZED.  Better to deprecate them and add MPI_IS_WITHIN_EPOCH.
>
> 3. Slide 10: I don't think we agreed that the requested level will be ignored by subsequent calls.  That's a quality of implementation issue.
>
> 4. Slide 15: We can say that our current stand is to remove that restriction that the "main thread" needs to finalize.
>
> Btw, I've requested for plenary time.
>
> -- Pavan
>
> On 07/15/2013 12:45 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
>> Here's a better cut of slides that are more Forum-friendly.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>>
>> (Pavan: I'm correct in thinking that you're getting plenary time from Martin for this, right?)
>>
>>
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> --
> Pavan Balaji
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