I made some minor-ish edits. I attached the diff to this email for review. Feel free to commit it if you think it is good to go. Some larger items that I did not want to change/adjust before discussing with the group: 17.1: Does the Advice to Implementors buy us anything? Should it be reworded? 17.2: Do we need the definitions of 'error' and 'failure'? We don't rely on these definitions in the text beyond their previously implied definitions in the standard. If we do not need them, then it might be good to drop them to reduce complexity. 17.5: It was suggested that we try to clarify this paragraph with the Rationale. Any suggestions? 17.5.2: Should we go ahead and pull the Advice to implementors regarding the return value of mpiexec into a separate ticket? Or should we keep it in the document and pull it if we get pushback? (I think on the call we decided the latter, but I forget now). 17.7: In the second Rationale paragraph. I moved the first sentence to 17.7.1. But I think we can drop the rest of the rationale. I do not know if it is terribly instructive. 17.7.1: I updated the rational to account for the MPI_Reduce numerical stability recommendation. --------------- Rationale. The MPI_COMM_VALIDATE and MPI_ICOMM_VALIDATE operations provide the MPI implementation an opportunity to restructure collective communication patterns before the communicator is used by the alive process. This may allow for improved collective performance after process failure. It should be noted such optimizations might change the consistency recommendation for MPI_REDUCE in the advice to implementors in Section ??. It is strongly recommended that the consistency recommendation hold for MPI_REDUCE between consecutive collective activations of a communicator using a collective validation operation (e.g, MPI_COMM_VALIDATE). (End of rationale.) --------------- 17.8.2: Note that I moved the Advice to users regarding libraries to here, per the teleconf. 17.12.1: Added back the Advice to users regarding the 'sync-barrier-sync' semantic for MPI_File_validate. Thanks, Josh On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Darius Buntinas <[email protected]> wrote:

I've made some changes we discussed on the phone this morning.  You can find the latest pdf here (or at the bottom of the "Modified run-through stabilization" page on the wiki): https://svn.mpi-forum.org/trac/mpi-forum-web/attachment/wiki/ft/run_through_...

Here's a summary of the changes:  * Changed MPI_ERR_RANK_FAIL_STOP to MPI_ERR_PROC_FAIL_STOP (because a "rank" doesn't fail, a "processes" does)  * Fixed up usage of rank vs process in the chapter.  * Removed MPI_COMM_COLLECTIVES_ENABLED function because it returns local version of a global state which is meaningless for applications.  * Added MPI_COMM_ANY_SOURCE_ENABLED  * Moved the definition of MPI_COMM_VALIDATE et.al. earlier in the section, and added a new subsection.

Please look over my changes, especially how I rearranged the collectives section for the definition of MPI_COMM_VALIDATE, and let me know if they look OK.

Thanks! -d

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