> > > > Can you change the spec? > > > > > > Not really. It will break all existing codes. > > > > I meant as in eg. submit changes to MPI-3 > > MPI spec tries to be backward compatible. And MPI-2 spec is 10 years > old, but MPI-1 is still in a wider use. HPC is moving fast in terms of HW > technology, but slow in terms of SW. Fortran is still hot there :)
Agreed. many many people dislike incompatible specification change. We should accept real world spec. - kosaki -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/