Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: dennis@pelicans.nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel)
Subject: Re: Ordering of MPI messages in multi-threaded programs
Organization: NCCOSC RDT&E Division, San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:30:00 GMT
Message-ID: <dennis.840670200@pelicans>

gdburns@osc.edu (Greg Burns) writes:
> I'm trying to decide if enough users want/need a thread-safe MPI ...

I claim users want to use MPI with threaded programs, citing the following
to support that claim:

   -- Users/programmers now write programs using threading as one tool
   in their toolkit, and this practice will become more prevalent as OS
   support for threads is improved.  When these users want to make their
   programs parallel, they then want to use MPI without throwing out one
   of the tools they've previously been using.

   -- We frequently see new MPI users ask questions about multithreading
   here in the MPI newsgroup.

   -- As a user/library writer, I want to use threads and MPI together.

I would be interested to hear the position of other MPI users....

Dennis Cottel, dennis@nosc.mil, (619) 553-1645  
NCCOSC, RDT&E Division (NRaD), San Diego, CA

