Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com (Eric Salo)
Subject: Re: MPI_Finalize necessary ?
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: 4 Sep 1995 04:44:33 GMT
Message-ID: <42e07h$82e@murrow.corp.sgi.com>

> Is a MPI_Finalize essential ?

This is a very good question. To the best of my knowledge, the official
answer from the MPI Forum is: We don't know.

Nowhere in the standard does it explicity say that MPI_Finalize *must* be
called, although that may have been the original intent. (Help me out here,
guys!) SGI's implementation of MPI does require it.

We really should answer this once and for all in the standard...

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