[Mpi3-tools] MPI3 tools WG Mission Statement

[Ashley Pittman]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 21:46 +0300, Marc-Andre Hermanns wrote: 
> Does 'correctness' tools include debuggers? It immediately triggered
> things like "Marmot" and not directly Totalview, DDT, etc., as I would
> usually not refer to a debugger as a correctness checker (but then, I am
> not a native speaker).

That was my first thought when I read the text as well, there are a
multitude of tools out there and no doubt there will me more which are
not even thought of yet during the lifetime of the interfaces we are
specifying.

> To make that a little clearer I would propose the following change:
> 
> The goal of this working group is to define interfaces that can be used
> by third party tools to obtain internal information about the MPI
> library, as well as the system environment an MPI application runs in.
> These tools include performance analysis tools, correctness checkers and
> debuggers.

Is "third party" or "external" better here?  Saying something is "third
party" to a specification seems a little unusual to me, it would be
third party to the vendor who implements the spec whereas external could
equally well apply to the forum, specification or vendor.

Ashley,

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