Hi guys, What is considered a process failure? I.e., starting at what moment since the start of the first unsuccessful communication attempt with this process is it considered dead? Asking because we see some big machines having transient link failures that may appear as node failures for a spell. Will user controllable timeouts be sufficient to define a process failure? Best regards. Alexander From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Howard Pritchard Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 2:55 AM To: MPI 3.0 Fault Tolerance and Dynamic Process Control working Group Subject: [Mpi3-ft] list of opaque objects and othe rmpi entities on the list Hi Folks, Here's the list of mpi opaque objects and a few additional constructs for consideration of states in the presence of process failures: communicators - Aourelian, Wesley groups - Rich G. data types - Sayantan RMA windows - Howard files (file handles) - Darius B. info object - Darius error handler - Darius message obj. - David S. request - Manjo status - Manjo op - Darius port (mpi-2 dynamic) - David S. user buffers attached to MPI for bsends - Sayantan Need to define lifecycle of the object in the case of no process failures, and in the case when one or more process failures occur while the object exists. Intel GmbH Dornacher Strasse 1 85622 Feldkirchen/Muenchen, Deutschland Sitz der Gesellschaft: Feldkirchen bei Muenchen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christian Lamprechter, Hannes Schwaderer, Douglas Lusk Registergericht: Muenchen HRB 47456 Ust.-IdNr./VAT Registration No.: DE129385895 Citibank Frankfurt a.M. (BLZ 502 109 00) 600119052