[mpiwg-p2p] Next meeting: 19th January 2015 11am Central US

[Daniel Holmes]

Hi All,

The next point-to-point teleconference will be on Monday 19th January 
2015 at 11am Central US via webex.

Connection details are on the point-to-point wiki page:
https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/wiki/PtpWikiPage

Agenda:
1) New INFO keys - specifically the "can INFO keys change the semantic 
behaviour of MPI?" issue (see summary from Jim below)
2) Progress on Arecv and Fsend
3) Other stuff?

Cheers,
Dan.

On 12/01/2015 15:39, Jim Dinan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Apologies for missing the meeting.  There was a lot of discussion at 
> the Forum about the validity of restricting the application's behavior 
> using info keys (or, if you prefer, the application asserting its 
> behavior through info keys).  Folks indicated that this qualifies as a 
> semantic change for the given communicator, which is forbidden by 
> Section 6.4.4 and made more complicated because MPI_Comm_dup 
> propagates info keys.
>
> In response to this feedback, I started working on a straw man 
> communicator assertions interface that would allow the application to 
> assert what its behavior will be.  I will prepare this for discussion 
> at a future WG meeting.
>
> In parallel, I have had discussions with others who feel that the 
> opinion expressed at the Forum meeting is incorrect; that it should be 
> valid to provide hints on application behavior through info keys.
>
> At the same time, the straw vote at the December meeting indicated 
> that the Forum as a whole would like to pursue this capability for the 
> MPI standard.  So, much more discussion and debate is needed.  Looking 
> forward to it,
>
>  ~Jim.

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