[Mpi3-rma] MPI3 RMA Design Goals

[William Gropp]

Good idea.  I added a slightly edited version to the wiki.

Bill

On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Rajeev Thakur wrote:

> How about also adding some high-level goals, such as the following.
>
> "The existing MPI-2 RMA API appears to not meet the needs of  
> application
> programmers and library writers and hence is not widely used. RMA as a
> programming paradigm, however, is still valued and needed. The goal of
> this subgroup is to fix the existing MPI-2 RMA API or develop a new  
> API
> that library writers (e.g., PGAS and Global Arrays) and application
> programmers would actually want to use."
>
> Rajeev
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> William Gropp
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 1:37 PM
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>> Subject: [Mpi3-rma] MPI3 RMA Design Goals
>>
>> I've added versions of the RMA design goals that we discussed at the
>> Forum meeting last week to the wiki page for our group (
>> https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/wiki/RmaWikiPage
>>  ).  This is a draft; lets discuss these.  Also, feel free
>> to add to
>> the discussion, particularly in the background section.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> William Gropp
>> Deputy Director for Research
>> Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
>> Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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William Gropp
Deputy Director for Research
Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign