Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: gropp@godzilla.mcs.anl.gov (William Gropp)
Subject: Re: MPI_HOST
Organization: Math and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:42:57 GMT
Message-ID: <82069817719514@godzilla.mcs.anl.gov>

In article <4cd8c7$31c@murrow.corp.sgi.com>,
Eric Salo <salo@mrjones.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>The section in chapter 7 of the standard that describes the MPI_HOST
>attribute does an exceedingly good job of saying nothing at all about
>just what it might be used for or why it's there at all. Could someone
>please enlighten me?
>

This is for systems that consist of a parallel attached processor and the
machine the thing is attached to.  Such systems used to be common; they are
rarer these days.  
Bill

