I pass this notice on to the general MPI community in case you haven't seen it: there will be a "let's talk about MPI 2.1" meeting at the end of the Euro PVM/MPI conference in Bonn. See the description below.
Hope to see you there! -- Jeff Squyres Server Virtualization Business Unit Cisco Systems ------ Forwarded Message > From: EuroPVM/MPI 2006 <ch...@pvmmpi06.org> > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:13:29 +0200 > To: <jsquy...@cisco.com> > Subject: EuroPVM/MPI 2006: Open Forum - invitation to participate > > Dear Dr. Jeff Squyres, > > On the last day of the conference, Wednesday 20th September, from 18:15, there > > will be a slot for open discussion on MPI and PVM related issues. > If you have issues you want to bring up for informal discussion in the Open > Forum, please send us a mail (for an example, see below) before the > conference. > > Richard Graham, LANL, proposes the following topic for the Open Forum: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > We propose to have an informal meeting to discuss convening an MPI 2.1 > forum with the intent of clarifying the current standard, and making > corrections to it. A list of items to start discussion includes, but > is not limited to: > - Clarifications to MPI datatypes > - Clarifications to MPI one-sided communications > - Miscellaneous corrections to the standard, such as Bill Gropp's web page > of MPI-2 errata > (www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gropp/projects/parallel/MPI/mpi-errata/index.html) > - Point-to-point hints > - Semantics for improved collectives performance. > Please come prepared with your set of such changes. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > best regards > > Bernd Mohr, Jesper Larsson Traff, Joachim Worringen, EuroPVM/MPI program > chairs > > -- > European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting 2006 > https://apps.fz-juelich.de/conftool/index.php?conf=main ------ End of Forwarded Message