Hi Fab,
On May 17, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Fab Tillier wrote:
> Quincey Koziol wrote on Tue, 17 May 2011 at 11:09:15
>
>> On May 17, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Fab Tillier wrote:
>>
>>> The meeting request I had expired 4/15/2011. Do we want to resume it?
>>>
>>> Couple topics of interest, actually on topic for our working group:
>>> - Removing deprecated functions (e.g. MPI_UB, MPI_LB, etc.) from MPI
>>> 3.0. They are still available via MPI 2.2 support, and an implementation can
>>> easily provide concurrent support for MPI 2.2 and MPI 3.0, should that be
>>> required.
>>> - Defining the C++ bindings as optional in MPI 3.0. This allows
>>> implementations that do not ship C++ bindings to be standard compliant.
>>> - Removing C++ bindings from MPI 3.0. This one goes counter to the
>>> previous one, but follows the same logic as for the other deprecated
>>> functions. If we don't provide C++ bindings for new MPI 3.0
>>> functionality, we should remove them from MPI 3.0. They can still be
>>> supported via MPI 2.2 compliance.
>>
>> Anything to discuss about const buffers?
>
> We passed the first reading, so we're going for 1st vote at the next meeting. There was one minor ticket0 wording change for the IN description, but nothing major. I don't think there's much to discuss at this point.
>
>> I've got someone working on extensions to the datatype
>> construction routines, creating a use case/justification for why we should add
>> those routines to 3.0. Adam Moody was going to create a ticket for those,
>> once I give him this use case document. [Dunno if we need to talk about
>> anything yet on this though]
>
> That would be nice to see. Jeff and I are also working on the MPI Timer request stuff, don't know if we want to discuss that in this working group, I'd be up for it, I like this crowd...
Awww, we like you too, Fab. :-) :-)
I've got two items I'd like to bounce around with folks:
- How best to return an exit code from an MPI application?
- What about adding a "quiet" flag to mpiexec to request that mpiexec (not the application) doesn't make any output?
Quincey
