Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: "Thomas E. Koch" <koch@mortar.fit.qut.edu.au>
Subject: MPI_Finalize necessary ?
Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 12:58:01 +1000
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Hi all,

I just implemented Modula-2 and Oberon interface modules to MPI, using 
MPICH, on a SP2 and a network of Linux PCs.
In order to get better programming style I would like to put MPI_Init in 
the body of these interface modules (initialization with import) and get 
rid of MPI_Finalize. 
So a user of these modules has not to care about this stuff.

Is a MPI_Finalize essential ?

cheers thomas.
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