Hi Rolf, I just saw your mail yesterday. After making a quick survey here, we'll get 2 of them. Hope it's still possible to get it done. Skip this demand if it complicates too much your process. Thanks for your work. Yann. On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:24:20PM +0200, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:

==== Please give a short reply if you want to buy the printed ==== ==== hardcover MPI-2.1 at the MPI Forum meeting in Dublin!! ==== = I need to know the number of books that I must ship to Dublin. = ==== Please reply until Tuesday Jul. 29 directly to ==== ==== [email protected] ====

Dear MPI Forum member,

after - all the positive votes for MPI-2.1, - a positive discussion in the MPI Forum steering committee, - and a positive response from the EuroPVM/MPI'08 organizers, - the installation of the errata process for MPI-2.1, (see http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/docs.html and MPI-2.2 wiki pages) I decided to support the MPI community with a printed hardcover MPI-2.1 book (608 pages) - with offset printing and sewn binding, A5 format, and - exact content, page and line numbers of the standard.

HLRS will sell these books at cost price (17 Euro). We are not a publisher. We do not sell the book in book stores. It is a special service for large HPC centers in Euro countries.

And of course for - all participants of the MPI Forum meeting in Dublin, - all participants of EuroPVM/MPI'08 in Dublin.

This book and the electronic counter part are the basis for all MPI-2.2 and MPI-3.0 discussions.

To get an idea, how many books I should ship to Dublin, I need to know, when you want to buy one ore more.

Please reply also if you are in the European Community and you need a large number for your HPC center. (I need to know it now, because shipping starts Aug. 1.)

Best regards Rolf

PS: I (and the MPI Forum steering committee) know well that there is still the risk, that MPI-2.1 will never get a standard if the MPI Forum votes "NO" at next meeting. But I'm optimistic. That's my nature. PPS: To keep the price so small and to have it ready at EuroPVM/MPI, and based on the expectation that MPI-2.2 will come end 2009, I decided not to go through a normal publishing process. My apologies for any inconvenience in non-Euro countries. PPPS: I expect that this book will be the first hardcover version of MPI. Please give me details, if I'm wrong.

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