On Sep 9, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Ashley Pittman wrote:

>> What is the exact semantics of an asynchronous barrier,
> 
> I'm not sure of the exact semantics but once you've got your head around the 
> concept it's fairly simple to understand how to use it, you call 
> MPI_IBarrier() and it gives you a handle you can test with MPI_Test() or 
> block for with MPI_Wait().  The tricky part comes in how many times you can 
> call MPI_IBarrier() on a communicator without waiting for the previous 
> barriers to complete but I haven't been following the discussion on this one 
> to know the specifics.

FWIW: here's a brief writeup of MPI_Ibarrier -

    http://blogs.cisco.com/ciscotalk/performance/comments/ibarrier/

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