[Mpi3-rma] Alternative RMA discussion

[William Gropp]

I think part of the way to address this (too many sync functions) is  
follow through on another of Torsten's recommendations - provide  
better user-oriented material on using the interface.  Most libraries  
these days have large numbers of methods/functions; this complaint  
usually means "I can't figure out which routines to use" not "there  
are too many routines".

Bill

On Dec 13, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Torsten Hoefler wrote:

>>
>> Since one of the criticisms of the current interface is too many
>> synchronization functions, it may be worth looking into whether the
>> synchronization requirements can be relaxed in some way in the cache
>> coherent case.
> I would like to hear more about this criticism. I think the current  
> set
> of functions is rather elegant (only the group argument in the PSCW
> model is a bit uncommon). But fence reflects BSP nicely and lock/ 
> unlock
> (if we have p2p windows) is a nice remote update mechanism.

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