Here are some notes on the merged Introduction Chapter. Once merged, this section could use some rewriting, but I'll save those comments for later. Here are some notes on the merge process itself: MPI-2.1, page 2, lines 1-19: Text is marked as blue (indicating from MPI-2.0), but this is from MPI-1.1 MPI-2.1, page 2, lines 28-29: Change "Allow convenient C and Fortran 77 bindings for the interface." --> "Allow convenient Fortran, C, and C++ bindings for the interface." MPI-2.1, page 3, line 18: Change "... are in the remaining chapters, ..." --> " ... are in the remaining chapters of the MPI-2 document, ..." clarification MPI-2.1, page 3, line 19: Remove "This document specifies Version 2.0 of MPI." unnecessary and confusing MPI-2.1, page 3, line 40: Change "... programs in Fortran 77 and C." --> "... programs in Fortran, C, and C++." this was in the merge plan but missed MPI-2.1, page 4, lines 12-14: Drop: "Although no explicit support for threads is provided, ... dynamic spawning of tasks." With MPI-2, these items are provided. MPI-2.1, page 5, lline 30-31: Change: "... the semantics of collective operation ..." --> "... the semantics of collective communication ..." better wording MPI-2.1, page 6, lines 1-2: Reword: "Chapter 9, Process Creation and Management, discuess the extensionof MPI to remove the static process model..." Perhaps just say: "Chapter9, Process Creation and Management, defines routines that allow for creation of processes." MPI-2.1, page 6, line 23: We have Annex C, but there is no mention of A & B. MPI-2.1, page 6, lines 26-30: It looks like the sentence about the MPI Function Index came in from both the MPI-1.1 and the MPI-2.0 documents. Maybe we just want the MPI-2.0 version. -Adam Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:

The first draft of the combined document MPI 1.x plus MPI 2.0 is ready for review !!!

All necessary files can be found via http://www.hlrs.de/mpi/mpi21/

The files are stored in a restricted directory to prohibit that search engines can find the drafts.

Dear reviewer: Please print your chapter with colors (!) and check all merging decisions. The colors will help to identify MPI 1.1-1.3 (black), MPI-2.0 (magenta) and new text that was necessary for the merge (red).

The review should be finished a few days before the March meeting. Please post your review results on mpi-21_at_[hidden] as reply to this mail.

Please note, which chapter you reviewed.

Please refer with all comments exactly to page and line numbers of - MPI 1.1, the official Postscript version - MPI 2.0, the official Postscript version - MPI 2.1, draft 2008-02-23 from http://www.hlrs.de/mpi/mpi21/ - and the merging plan 2008-02-23, that you can find at same directory

If you detect a problem, it is necessary that you try to propose a solution in similar notation as used in the merging plan.

I have finished all except the merging of the MPI-1 C++ bindings into the chapters' text, and except of merging the Annexes.

The Ballots 1-4 are also not included. In the moment, you need to review only the "merging". Nothing more. If you detect errors in the original standards, then please go through normal procedure, i.e., through the MPI 2.1 and MPI 2.2 ballots.

And now, thank you very much that you have registered to do a review (if you are on the list below, done in Jan.2008 meeting).

Good luck.

Best regards Rolf

---------------------------------------------------- Frontmatter: (I've done a new proposal for the abstract, please check) - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp Chap. 1: Introduction to MPI - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp, Karl Feind, Adam Moody Chap. 2: MPI-2 Terms and Conventions - Tony Skjellum, Bill Gropp, Richard Barrett Chap. 3: Point-to-Point Communication (incl. sections from MPI-2 Misc. + 8.9) - Rich Graham, Jespar Larsson Traeff, George Bosilca, Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, David Solt, B. Gropp, Matt Koop Chap. 4: Collective Communication (incl. sections from MPI-2 Ext. Collect.) - Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Edgar Gabriel, Rajeev Thakur, Bill Gropp, Adam Moody, Georg Bosilca Chap. 5: Groups, Context, and Communicators (incl. sections from MPI-2 Ext.Col. + 8.8) - Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Edgar Gabriel, Bill Gropp, Georg Bosilca, Robert Blackmore Chap. 6: Process Topologies - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp, Richard Barrett Chap. 7: MPI Environmental Management (incl. sections from MPI-2 Misc.) - Rich Graham, Jespar Larsson Traeff, George Bosilca, Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, David Solt, B. Gropp Chap. 8: Miscellany - Rich Graham, George Bosilca, Steve Poole, Kannan Narasimhan, B. Gropp Chap. 9: Process Creation and Management - Dries Kimpe, Rusty Lusk, Georg Bosilca, Bill Gropp, Kalem Karian Chap. 10: One-Sided Communication - Ericsson-Zenith, Jespar Larsson Traeff, Martin Schulz, Bill Gropp, Darius Buntinas Chap. 11: External Interfaces - Bronis de Supinski, Bill Gropp Chap. 12: I/O - Rajeev Thakur, Joachim Worringen, Bill Gropp Chap. 13: Language Bindings - Jeff Squyres, Steve Poole, Purushotham Bangalore, Bill Gropp, Erez Haba, Alexander Supalov Chap. 14: Profiling Interface - Bronis de Supinski, Bill Gropp, Jeff Brown Bibliography: (is done automatically) - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp Annex A: (this chapter is not yet done - therefore no review for this) - Jeff Squyres, Steve Poole, Purushotham Bangalore, Bill Gropp, Alexander Supalov Index: (is done automatically) - Rusty Lusk, Bill Gropp

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