This is the currently proposed Versions History as shown on the
back-page of the title page
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Version 2.1: <date>, 2008. This document combines the previous
documents MPI 1.3 (????, 2008) and MPI-2.0 (July 18, 1997).
Certain parts of MPI 2.0, such as some sections of Chapter 4,
Miscellany, and Chapter 7, Extended Collective Operations have
been merged into the Chapters of MPI 1.3. Additional errata and
clarifications collected by the MPI Forum are also included in
this document.
Version 1.3: <date>, 2008. This document combines the previous
documents MPI 1.1 (June 12, 1995) and the MPI 1.2 Chapter in MPI-2
(July 18, 1997). Additional errata collected by the MPI Forum
referring to MPI 1.1 and MPI 1.2 are also included in this
document.
Version 2.0: <date>, 1997. Beginning after the release of
MPI 1.1, the MPI Forum began meeting to consider corrections and
extensions. MPI-2 has been focused on process creation and
management, one-sided communications, extended collective
communications, external interfaces and parallel I/O. A miscellany
chapter discusses items that don't fit elsewhere, in particular
language interoperability.
Version 1.2: July 18, 1997. The MPI-2 Forum introduced MPI 1.2 ...
Version 1.1: June, 1995. Beginning in March, 1995, the Message ...
Version 1.0: June, 1994. The Message Passing Interface Forum ...
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It is based on the existing text from MPI 1.1
(For completness, I repeated the already voted text about MPI 1.3)
The words "Version x.x: date, year" will be printed bold face
(as shown in MPI 1.1 on the second frontmatter page).
Are there proposals for modifications?
Discussion should be done through the new mailing list
mpi-21_at_cs.uiuc.edu.
I have sent out this mail with CC through the old general list
mpi-21_at_[hidden]
Best regards
Rolf
Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseifner_at_[hidden]
High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530
University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832
Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner
Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany . (Office: Allmandring 30)
This is the currently proposed Abstract for MPI 2.1:
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This document describes the MPI standard version 2.1 in one
combined document. This document combines the content from the
previous standards “MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard,
June 12, 1995” (MPI-1.1) and “MPI-2: Extensions to the
Message-Passing Interface, July, 1997” (MPI-1.2 and MPI-2.0)
and errata documents from the MPI Forum.
The standard MPI-1.1 includes point-to-point message passing,
collective communications, group and communicator concepts,
process topologies, environmental management, and a profiling
interface. Language bindings for C and Fortran are defined.
The MPI-1.2 chapter of the MPI-2 document contains clarifications
and corrections to the MPI-1.1 standard and defines MPI-1.2.
Together with corrections, these MPI-1 documents were combined
to MPI 1.3 (<data>, 2008) which was used as input for this book.
Second input is the MPI-2 part of the MPI-2 document which
describes additions to the MPI-1 standard and defines the
MPI standard version 2.0. These include miscellaneous topics,
process creation and management, one-sided communications,
extended collective operations, external interfaces, I/O,
and additional language bindings (C++). Additional clarifications
and errata corrections to MPI-2.0 are also included.
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It is based on the abstract of MPI 2.0.
MPI 1.1 hadn't any abstract.
This abstact should tell the main features of MPI.
It should not give a full history. This is done by the versions page.
Hints from the MPI Forum meeting Jan. 2008 are also included,
i.e., the major sources are referenced, but also the steps
between, i.e., the clarifications and MPI 1.3.
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Discussion should be done through the new mailing list
mpi-21_at_cs.uiuc.edu.
I have sent out this mail with CC through the old general list
mpi-21_at_[hidden]
Best regards
Rolf
Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseifner_at_[hidden]
High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530
University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832
Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner
Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany . (Office: Allmandring 30)
This is the currently proposed Ackno-text on the title page
of MPI 2.1:
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This work was supported in part by ARPA, NSF and DARPA under grant ASC-9310330, the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Cooperative Agreement No. CCR-8809615, and the NSF contract CDA-9115428,
and by the Commission of the European Community through Esprit project
P6643 and under project HPC Standards (21111).
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It is based on the references on the title pages of MPI 1.1 and 2.0.
Do we need additional references? Is the wording okay?
Discussion should be done through the new mailing list
mpi-21_at_cs.uiuc.edu.
I have sent out this mail with CC through the old general list
mpi-21_at_[hidden]
Best regards
Rolf
Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseifner_at_[hidden]
High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530
University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832
Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner
Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany . (Office: Allmandring 30)
