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Re: [Mpi-comments] mpi-comments Digest, Vol 13, Issue 1
by HOLMES Daniel 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Hi Sajid Ali, This has been recorded as issue 297: https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/297 and is addressed in pull request 244: https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-standard/pull/244 Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Our sincere apologies for all ill-feeling this casual usage of unacceptable language has caused. Cheers, Dan. — Dr Daniel Holmes PhD Architect (HPC Research) d.holmes(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]> Phone: +44 (0) 131 651 3465 Mobile: +44 (0) 7940 524 088 Address: Room 2.09, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Central Area, Edinburgh, EH8 9BT — The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. — On 14 Jun 2020, at 18:00, mpi-comments-request(a)lists.mpi-forum.org<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Send mpi-comments mailing list submissions to mpi-comments(a)lists.mpi-forum.org<mailto:[email protected]> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.mpi-forum.org/mailman/listinfo/mpi-comments or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mpi-comments-request(a)lists.mpi-forum.org You can reach the person managing the list at mpi-comments-owner(a)lists.mpi-forum.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of mpi-comments digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Inclusive language (Sajid Ali) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 11:42:53 -0500 From: Sajid Ali <sajidsyed2021(a)u.northwestern.edu> To: mpi-comments(a)lists.mpi-forum.org Subject: [Mpi-comments] Inclusive language Message-ID: <CAOGsD9icLeaF2hV0Y8++JW6AJC6R15_56A004-ACMX4k1_=BgA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi MPI-Forum, This is request to move away from the master-slave terminology currently used in the following locations in the 2019 draft specification : - section 6.4.1 : page 256, line 46 - example 6.5.3 page 272 and page 273 These would be better described by supervisor/executor or manager/worker or anything the members of "Groups, Contexts, Communicators, Caching" working group see fit. Thank You, Sajid Ali | PhD Candidate Applied Physics Northwestern University s-sajid-ali.github.io -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mpi-forum.org/pipermail/mpi-comments/attachments/20200614/c77a…> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ mpi-comments mailing list mpi-comments(a)lists.mpi-forum.org https://lists.mpi-forum.org/mailman/listinfo/mpi-comments ------------------------------ End of mpi-comments Digest, Vol 13, Issue 1 *******************************************

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Re: [Mpi-comments] Inclusive language
by Martin Schulz 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Dear Sajid, Thank you for this comment - we certainly agree and we will address this in the next version of the MPI standard. Martin — Prof. Dr. Martin Schulz, Chair of Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Department of Informatics, TU-Munich, Boltzmannstraße 3, D-85748 Garching Member of the Board of Directors at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) Email: schulzm(a)in.tum.de > On 14. Jun 2020, at 18:42, Sajid Ali via mpi-comments <mpi-comments(a)lists.mpi-forum.org> wrote: > > Hi MPI-Forum, > > This is request to move away from the master-slave terminology currently used in the following locations in the 2019 draft specification : > - section 6.4.1 : page 256, line 46 > - example 6.5.3 page 272 and page 273 > These would be better described by supervisor/executor or manager/worker or anything the members of "Groups, Contexts, Communicators, Caching" working group see fit. > > Thank You, > Sajid Ali | PhD Candidate > Applied Physics > Northwestern University > s-sajid-ali.github.io <http://s-sajid-ali.github.io/>_______________________________________________ > mpi-comments mailing list > mpi-comments(a)lists.mpi-forum.org > https://lists.mpi-forum.org/mailman/listinfo/mpi-comments

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Inclusive language
by Sajid Ali 14 Jun '20

14 Jun '20

Hi MPI-Forum, This is request to move away from the master-slave terminology currently used in the following locations in the 2019 draft specification : - section 6.4.1 : page 256, line 46 - example 6.5.3 page 272 and page 273 These would be better described by supervisor/executor or manager/worker or anything the members of "Groups, Contexts, Communicators, Caching" working group see fit. Thank You, Sajid Ali | PhD Candidate Applied Physics Northwestern University s-sajid-ali.github.io

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