[Mpi3-tools] MPI3 tools WG Mission Statement

[Rajeev Thakur]

This looks very good.

Rajeev 

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> Martin Schulz
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:02 AM
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> Subject: [Mpi3-tools] MPI3 tools WG Mission Statement
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Below is a first draft of a mission statement for the tools 
> WG that we  
> were asked to
> provide. I would like to discuss this with the whole group at  
> tomorrow's WG meeting.
> Please feel free to also comment via email if you can't make 
> it to the  
> meeting or
> if have any urgent comments (seems the MPI Forum seems to be 
> reviewing  
> some
> of these already).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> The goal of this working group is define interfaces that can be used  
> by both performance
> and correctness tools to gain information about internals of the MPI  
> library, interactions
> between an application and the MPI library, as well as the system  
> environment an MPI
> application runs in. This is intended as an extension to the 
> existing  
> and widely used
> PMPI interface. These efforts will help in providing reliable and  
> portable interfaces for
> MPI tools with new functionality currently not covered by the MPI  
> standard.
> 
> In particular, this WG is aiming at the standardization of the  
> following interfaces:
> - A scalable version of a process acquisition interface to identify  
> and locate all
>    processes which are part of an MPI job.
> - An interface to look for and locate tool DLLs.
> - An interface to inspect message queues.
> - An interface to understand progress in collective communication.
> - An interface to query additional semantic information for 
> opaque MPI  
> handles.
> - A performance information interface that allows MPI 
> implementations  
> to export
>    additional low level performance information including, but not  
> limited to, the
>    operating state of the MPI library.
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> _________
> Martin Schulz, schulzm at llnl.gov, http://people.llnl.gov/schulzm
> CASC @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA
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