On Oct 13, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Supalov, Alexander wrote:
Thanks. The 2.1.1, which was presented last time, in my opinion does not seem to solve the right problem. Instead of defining a way for unambiguous addressing of the threads in MPI, which would eliminate the MPI_Probe/Recv ambiguity and many other issues, it attempts to add yet another concept (this time, a message id) in the current situation where any thread can do what they please.
I'm not quite sure I understand your proposal. <... after typing out a lengthy/rambling discourse that made very little sense and was fraught with questions and ambiguities :-) ...> Let's discuss this in Chicago; Rich has allocated 5-7pm on Monday for discussion of this proposal. These are exactly the kinds of larger issues that we want to raise via this proposal. -- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems